Article January 14, 2019 Issue

You will always exist

Deb Hensley

What does it mean to be immortal? That we are each immortal is an essential aspect of the teachings of Christian Science, and I confess I’ve struggled to understand the concept.

To be honest, I’ve often tried to reason it out with a certain brainy logic, intellectually accepting immortality as a sort of metaphysical goal—something I need to come to through a special set of human virtues. Then, goes my human reasoning, if I work hard enough I’ll finally get it right—like a math problem. But this kind of thinking always leads to the same incorrect conclusion: Immortality is for saints or sci-fi characters. Eternal life? Nice idea, but not for the average Joe.

So one day this past winter, in the middle of a school-canceling blizzard, I was surprised by a wholly unbidden vision regarding immortality that illuminated the truth about God, immortal Life, in a new way.

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