How comforting it is when one learns through Christian Science that there can be no sense of loss or change in his experience that can separate him from the beneficent law of God, good!

If one is grieved by the loss of a loved one and is concerned that this loss will make for great changes in his life, his awakening to the changeless nature of the good of true being proportionately destroys his fears and grief. The spiritual understanding that the happiness and harmony of immortal life are included in his true identity sustains one under every kind of change in his experience.

Mrs. Eddy writes of Christ, Truth (Poems, p. 75),

God's power does restore one's sense of fulfillment through the realization of one's identity as an idea of God. True spiritual life is constantly fulfilling God's purpose, and the knowledge of this fact gives one strength, comfort, and happiness. The Psalmist sings (Ps. 40:2), "He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings." Then he reassures mankind of true, inward joy when he adds, "And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God."

Divine Science, the Comforter promised by Christ Jesus, reveals that one's real selfhood reflects infinite good, and this rouses the receptive student to a greater realization of happiness and security and to the assurance of the fulfillment of these in his experience.

If one is yearning for an increased sense of the fulfillment of true being in his life, he must identify himself with the completeness and happiness of his real self. The perfection that this real self includes as God's reflection. Christian Science explains, is not depleted by any human sense of loss or change. The acknowledgment of the good of one's real being, which originates in God and is maintained perpetually by God, acts as spiritual law to one's human experience and enriches it.

Christian Science reveals that there is no death. It contradicts the testimony of the deceiving, physical sense of death and separation with the spiritual truth that every true individuality exists in God as Mind's idea.

The sense of grief and loss, which originates in supposititious mortal consciousness and which testifies that separate states and stages of consciousness are real, is destroyed when one understands that there is but one real plane of existence and that all identities live there. Insofar as one acknowledges the spiritual sense of life in all its fullness and joy as the reality of life, his grief is healed, and he is genuinely happy.

Christ Jesus understood that the kingdom of God is within all real individuality. His understanding of this fact enabled the Master to awaken men to a fuller sense of life, health, and harmony. He pointed out that the false, material sense of life, with its claims of loss and loneliness, would deprive one of the existent good of his true being. The Way-shower said (Luke 9: 62), "No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God."

Too often our personal affection for the departed blinds us to the real good in our experience. Our sadness claims to hide the enthusiasm, joy, and satisfaction of reality that can enrich daily life. But to the extent that we abandon the material sense of existence for the real, we become conscious of the spiritual forces of Life which propel our real individuality, forces such as inspiration, constructive purposes, and peace.

Mrs. Eddy writes in "Retrospection and Introspection" (p. 21), "The heavenly intent of earth's shadows is to chasten the affections, to rebuke human consciousness and turn it gladly from a material, false sense of life and happiness, to spiritual joy and true estimate of being." The good that is real in our human experience hints the omnipresence of God. The beautiful character of a loved one, a scene of serene beauty, or even the true happiness and contentment that we may have had in past human relationships, all enrich our present conscious existence. Nothing can separate us from infinite good!

The following message in a familiar hymn can be proved in our experience (Christian Science Hymnal, No. 238):