Maybe you have seen paintings in art galleries or churches of angels with halos over their heads. When a friend emailed, thanking me for my detailed work on a church project, I jokingly responded that I was feeling very angelic and that I’d “dusted off my halo” that day. Her sweet reply was, “There’s no dust on your halo.” I smiled, but I also felt prompted to give this some deeper prayerful consideration. 

I’ve found in my study and practice of Christian Science that it’s important to strive to always identify myself correctly as spiritual and good. It’s easy to think that sometimes we’re “angelic”—perhaps having clear, spiritual insights or being kind to others—but that other times we don’t feel or act very spiritually minded or angelic at all. Then our “halo” feels a bit dusty! But identifying ourselves as dual-minded beings swinging between good and “not so good,” immortality and mortality, doesn’t get us very far.

The first chapter of Genesis in the Bible clearly explains that we are created in God’s image and likeness (see verses 26, 27). Logically then, the best way to start learning more about our true, spiritual nature is to learn more about God, who is divine Love. The Bible’s overall message is that God is one, is All, and that God is good. The book of Isaiah includes this revelation from God: “I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me” (45:5). And Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by the inspired spiritual writer Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science, says this: “God is one. The allness of Deity is His oneness” (p. 267).