Single, yet with a love that cannot be lost

"Earlier, my outlook had been too dull to understand the joys of being single."

By Cynthia Alyce Neely

All Of My Friends were either married or dating, but I was neither married nor dating. In fact, as a single parent, I had yearned for several years to be married again. But it hadn't happened. Tiring of this unsatisfied desire, I decided to stand up to the feeling of being alone, separated from love and companionship. I needed to understand and accept my inseparable relation to God, divine Love.

Reaching out for new ideas, I listened again to a tape of the Christian Science Sentinel—Radio Edition in which a woman spoke of trying to decide which of two men she would marry. Her thought changed from wondering whom she should marry, to asking what would bless her most—being single or being married?

Earlier, my outlook had been too dull to understand the joys of being single. Now my thought was different. Feeling more receptive to God's direction in my life, I became open to the idea of being single and to stop being unhappy and discontented—of not pushing for what I wanted, and of seeing that being single didn't mean I would be alone. Some ideas from Science and Health, by Mary Baker Eddy, opened new thoughts. She explains: "As mortals gain more correct views of God and man, multitudinous objects of creation, which before were invisible, will become visible. When we realize that Life is Spirit, never in nor of matter, this understanding will expand into self-completeness, finding all in God, good, and needing no other consciousness" (p. 264). Inspired by these ideas, I realized that although single, I was growing spiritually immensely and was beginning to see that my life truly was full and complete.

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