Article July 13, 2015 Issue

What’s really going on here and now?

Joseph Benedict

When we are faced with the fear of communicable disease, one helpful way to pray is to distinguish what seems to be going around from what’s really going on. Through the study of Christian Science, we learn that the only thing ever and always going on is the all-embracing love of God. “In him,” the Bible tells us, “we live, and move, and have our being” (Acts 17:28).

God, infinite Mind, created all and knows all. And, as we read in the first chapter of Genesis, God knows all that He created to be “very good” (verse 31). This is the true, spiritual view of life, in which man includes only the good that God is always expressing in him.

One helpful way to pray is to distinguish what seems to be going around from what’s really going on.