TIME AND ETERNITY...

May 2, 2009
Laurance R. Doyle

I understand there are some folks here today that have not previously
been
introduced to Christian Science. You may wonder why an astrophysicist
has been
asked to address the annual meeting of a Christian Science Nursing
Facility. I'm
not as familiar with various religious communities as I am with the
scientific
community, but when introducing Christian Science I would point out that
Christian Scientists do not so much consider themselves as a faith-based
congregation as a science-based congregation. That is to say, blind
faith is not
encouraged while scientific understanding is. How can scientific
understanding
be applied to things that are spiritual? you might ask. Well, in
Christian
Science spiritual evidence is taken as being more reliable than material
evidence -- that is, more reliable than the evidence of the senses.
This is not
something new to any science, really. It was when the evidence of
intelligence
began to take precedence over the evidence of the appearances that the
Scientific Revolution actually began. In that case it was the
intelligent
evidence that the Earth went around the Sun over the sense appearance
that the
Sun went around the Earth. We'll refer to this a bit more later. So in
Christian
Science spiritual evidence is not only acceptable, it is considered
the more
reliable.

We can look at various analogies that might help make this position more
tenable. One used a lot in the Christian Science Sunday School is about
mathematics. (And thanks to the Christian Scientists in the audience
for their
patience at this explanation.) The math is not, of course, in the
chalk on the
blackboard. The chalk is, at best, a limited representation of
mathematics when
an equation is correctly written on the blackboard. But, unlike
mathematics
itself, chalk can indicate a mistake if a sum is incorrectly written.
To be
original, let's take 2 + 2 =5. If we believe the chalk evidence then
the mistake
is more real than the truth. We can argue that chalk is more real
because it is
visible to the senses whereas the truth is not. We might even say that
the chalk
has power to do evil because when we believed 2 + 2 = 5 it, for
example, really
messed up our efforts to balance our bank account. Well, it only has
the power
to mess things up if you believe it to be true, right?

Christian Science training is not so different from the way one solves
a math
problem. First, while one seems to see a mistake on the blackboard
from the
evidence of the senses, one does not therefore conclude that
mathematics itself
has made the mistake. Rather one starts with the most basic
understanding that
mathematics is an unchanging, exact, perfect, and one could even say,
harmonious
principle that we need to, rather, align our thinking with so that the
right
answer can become evident. The right answer will not only be
reasonable, but
deeply intuitive and harmonious also. Mary Baker Eddy who discovered
Christian
Science, and whom we'll discuss in a moment, wrote about the process
this way
(S+H 259: 11-14), "The Christlike understanding of scientific being
and divine
healing includes a perfect Principle and idea, -- perfect God and
perfect man,
-- as the basis of thought and demonstration." So now, if I had not
previously
heard of Christian Science, I'd be asking at this point, what? Where
did Christ
come in? And are we talking about math or are we talking about God?
Well, in
Christian Science we consider Christ Jesus to have been the most
scientific
person to ever walk this planet. We do not consider that his mission
was to
found a church, nor that he performed what are called "miracles" in
defiance of
the natural laws of the universe. Christian Scientists consider these
miracles
actually demonstrations of the deeper nature of spiritual reality.
This is more
in line with what Christ Jesus himself said he came for. Jesus said,
(John 18:
37 To, to 1st .), "To this end was I born, and for this cause came I
into the
world, that I should bear witness unto the truth." Christ Jesus came
to show us
what the Truth is. He also said that his works, rather than other
people's word
for it, bore witness to his correctness, and also that if he did not
do the
works of healing we were not to believe him. He said the Source of the
works was
his Father, God, and that God was our Father too. Thus the Principle
of his
scientific demonstrations of healing was God, his Father, which might
be thought
of as another name for Life Itself. Rather than detracting from the
precious
sacredness of Christ Jesus teachings, the idea that he came to reveal
to us the
harmonious reality of God's creation reveals what a great purpose he
really had.
To reveal the Truth of spiritual reality.

Everything he taught and did helped to jolt us out of a false belief
in the
reliability of the senses and bring our understanding into line with the
thoughts of God. (Matt 5: 48), "Be ye therefore perfect even as your
Father,
which is in heaven, is perfect," he said. His goal for us was not to
become
perfect, but to be right now perfect -- and this relates to our talk
today. Mary
Baker Eddy, as the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, is
greatly loved
and revered because she recognized that Christ Jesus was talking about
reality
when he taught and healed. She discovered that reality is spiritual
and perfect,
that this is what Christ Jesus had been teaching all along, and knew
that this
had been scientifically confirmed when she started to reproduce the
"miraculous"
healings that Jesus had performed. Realizing that this healing ability
was not
based upon a personality, but rather based upon the same Principle
that Jesus
demonstrated, she was able therefore to actually teach the healing
process to
others.

So hopefully this is an introductory background giving an idea about
where
Christian Scientists are coming from. You should feel free to try it out
yourself too. Allowing one's thinking to be aligned with the Mind that
is God is
not an exercise in human mind control -- it is an exercise in giving
up human
mind control. It is actually an exercise in seeing that there is only
one Mind
and that this Mind is God. Feel free to try this out. It won't hurt
you. You
can't overdose on Christian Science. You will find that previous
apparent
limitations -- whether in health, work, intelligence, inspiration,
world peace,
whatever -- will become less evident in your experience. But, again,
as LeVar
Burton says in the television show Reading Rainbow, "You don't have to
take my
word for it!" Try it out!

OK, hopefully now we're all pretty much on the same page. So let's now
talk a
bit about time and eternity. We'll just take a quick look at time as
physics
defines it, and then at eternity as metaphysics reveals it. Now you
may consider
this a topic for scientists, but Christian Scientists are scientists,
and we
shall see that correcting the false notion of time relates to the
solution of
many problems, including stress, aging, and healing. We shall find
that time is
considered an important healing ingredient in medical practice but
that it is
not a consideration in Christian Science healing at all. The two
currently most
successful foundations of modern physics -- general relativity and
quantum
mechanicsâ€"are apparently incompatible with each other according to
the current
understanding of modern physics. One of the fundamental differences
between
these two fields can be said to be based on their different concepts
of what
time actually is.

In general relativity time is a direction -- up, down, left, right,
back, forth,
in space, and "forwards" and "backwards" in time are the four
dimensions known
in physics as "spacetime." In general relativity, time is also
relative -- that
is to say that there are as many answers to the question, "What time
is it?" as
there are clocks in the universe. ("Clocks" here mean any measurement of
redundant matter -- atoms oscillating, planets orbiting, or the hands
of Big Ben
going around and around). Another interesting thing is that the faster
you go,
the less time you have, at least compared to folks going more slowly.
You've
heard the statement, "Haste makes waste" and according to relativistic
physics
what one wastes by haste is time itself. In general relativity, then,
time is
only stretched out by going faster so that everyone else seems to be
going much
faster then the speeding person. In other words, if you get in a
rocket and
accelerate fast enough (very fast), in the first hour of flight
thousands of
years could have passed on Earth.

However, the illusory nature of time has been understood by physicists
for some,
ah, "duration" now. It is difficult to avoid the term "time"
sometimes. That is,
most of the time I try not to use it. But the idea of a field against
which
things flow from past to future has been recognized as an illusion in
physics.
When Einstein's long-time friend, Michele Besso, passed on, Einstein
wrote a
letter to Besso's son (March 21, 1955), saying "For us, physicists, in
the soul,
the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly
persistent illusion." Of course, 80 years before this -- in a
victorian Age
where time was considered immutable -- Mary Baker Eddy had already
defined time
(S+H 595: 17-19 limits), in part, as "limits, . . . matter, . . .
error."

Now, as opposed to general relativity, what does quantum physics have
to say
about time? In quantum physics time is basically considered to be a
particle.
That is to say that it is a particle if it is measured -- it is a
probability
wave when no one looks at it. As I have mentioned before, the leading
theory in
quantum physics is that -- referring to material particles – nothing
really
exists as something until it is observed or measured. This is actually
called
the "quantum measurement problem" -- a problem because it is difficult
for
physicists (and, frankly, most other folks) to relate to things not
existing
until they are observed. (Other possible explanations are even more
far out; I'm
just taking the main stream interpretation here.) In quantum physics the
apparent transformation from possibility to actual sub-atomic particle
is called
"the collapse of the wave function." It's kind of like having a bunch
of 1/6ths
in the dice cup when playing a game that only become dice when they
are rolled
out onto the table. But this is apparently the case as many physics
labs have
shown. Mrs. Eddy once told a student who was not healing a case, "Get
a higher
sense of the nothingness of matter." In the Glossary of Science and
Health Mrs.
Eddy defines matter, in part, as (S+H 591: 8-9 Mythology): "Mythology;
mortality; another name for mortal mind; illusion". Note that one
cannot have
time without matter. One of the most fundamental discoveries in
quantum physics
is known as the "Uncertainty Principle." It is interesting that one
definition
of "Principle" is "A fundamental source or basis of something." So we
see, then,
that the fundamental source or basis of matter is uncertainty. The term
"uncertainty principle" is actually somewhat contradictory.

As we have said, one of the "particles" in quantum physics subject to
this
uncertainty is actually time itself. As I have mentioned before, I'm
being very
careful with nomenclature because I am trying to say something that is
really
mathematical in the English language. But if you want to share what
physicists
are presently discovering with others feel free to say it this way and
you will
not run into any problems with the physicists (or else send them to
me). In many
experiments in quantum physics, if one measures the energy of a tiny
particle,
for example, then one cannot measure precisely at what time it had
that energy.
And, vice versa, if one wants to precisely measure the time, then one
cannot
measure the energy precisely. We could contrast this with ideas, for
example. Is
2 + 2 ever equal to 3.99999999, or 4.0000001? No, it is always exact
and precise
-- perfectly and to as many decimal points as possible, always 4. So
mathematical ideas are always exact. (I might add that even irrational
-- that
is, ongoing -- numbers can be computed exactly.) As already mentioned,
imprecision only arises in the chalk. Quantum physics actually states
that
material measurement must be imprecise. The chalk also takes time to
correct,
while math does not take time to be correct because it is already
correct. So
while matter is subject to time, ideas exist only in the realm of
eternity. Mrs.
Eddy writes (S+H 463: 12-13), "A spiritual idea has not a single
element of
error, and this truth removes properly whatever is offensive." And by
the way,
you are one of the spiritual ideas she is talking about. General
relativity and
quantum physics can, then, at least agree that time is not an immutable
structure. To refer to Mrs. Eddy's definition of time again: "Mortal
measurements; limits, . . . ; matter; error; . . . " we should
certainly think
again if we find ourselves saying, "I'd like more time," shouldn't we?
Aren't we
saying, "Gee, I wish I had more limits so I could get everything
done!" Or "If I
only had more error I could find the right answers." The concept of
time seems
to be very prevalent today but it is, even in physics, understood to
be an
illusion. Let me say that immortality depends not on getting more time
but in
getting rid of it. I like what one reverend said when he was asked,
"What do you
think of immortality?" He said, "I'm enjoying every moment of it!"
Let's take an
example. When I went back east to teach at a little college that lies
along the
Mississippi River I remember thinking, "There is the old Mississippi."
But then
I realized it was not the same river at all. All the water I had seen
last time
was long gone out into the ocean. Hum, so why is it still the same
Mississippi
if no material component is the same? Well, it is also known that
every atom in
the human body is replaced every few years (98% in one year). If our
identity is
material, then how can we be the same people we were a few years ago?
You get,
for example, completely new liver atoms in a few weeks. So how can one
have
liver complaint for months? Clearly the concept of our identity being
fundamentally material does not work, even according to biology.

Let's take another example. One might ask, why should the human body
age just
because it has been orbiting around the Sun for a while? When we ask
someone's
age, aren't we asking, "How many orbits around the Sun has your body
traveled?"
(When people ask my age, I give it to them in kilometers.) The
assumption in the
question is that life was put into matter at birth. How long ago did the
impossible occur? Mrs. Eddy reminds us (S+H 245: 27), "Impossibilities
never
occur." She also points out (S+H 336: 2-6), "Mind never enters the
finite.
Intelligence never passes into non-intelligence, or matter. Good never
enters
into evil, the unlimited into the limited, the eternal into the
temporal, nor
the immortal into mortality." From a physicist's viewpoint, then,
there is no
known direct force connecting the orbit of the Earth with the aging of
the human
body. Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health (S+H 246: 10-13, 17-18),
"The
measurement of life by solar years robs youth and gives ugliness to
age. The
radiant sun of virtue and truth coexists with being. Manhood is its
eternal
noon, undimmed by a declining sun. . . . Never record ages."

Chronological data are no part of the vast forever." You are rather
ever eternal
because God has ever thought of you as His idea. But you are also
created every
moment by the divine Mind, so in that sense you can say that you are
"now' old.
We'll make up a fancier term, OK? You can say your age is
"eternitesimal" --
fresh from the Mind of God every moment. Mrs. Eddy addresses this age
thing by
asking and answering ten of the following eleven questions: (My 235:
15-27), "Is
God infinite? Yes. Did God make man? Yes. Did God make all that was
made? He
did. Is God Spirit? He is. Did infinite Spirit make that which is not
spiritual?
No. Who or what made matter? Matter as substance or intelligence never
was made.
Is mortal man a creator, is he matter or spirit? Neither one. Why?
Because
Spirit is God and infinite; hence there can be no other creator and no
other
creation. Man is but His image and likeness. Are you a Christian
Scientist? I
am. Do you adopt as truth the above statements? I do. Then why this
meaningless
commemoration of birthdays, since there are none?" The answer to this
last
question she leaves to us as an exercise for the student. I've had
occasion to
think about another statement of Mrs. Eddy's in Science and Health
with regard
to age, that also includes the orbit of the Earth around the Sun. She
writes,
(S+H 209: 16-24), "The compounded minerals or aggregated substances
composing
the earth, the relations which constituent masses hold to each other,
the
magnitudes, distances, and revolutions of the celestial bodies, are of
no real
importance, when we remember that they all must give place to the
spiritual fact
by the translation of man and the universe back into Spirit. In
proportion as
this is done, man and the universe will be found harmonious and
eternal." I
thought it was interesting that she had not written that the study of
astronomy
was of no importance -- she does, after all, put it first in the list of
"academics of the right sort" in Science and Health (S+H 195: 15-22).
Her
statement is actually that, " . . . the magnitudes, distances, and
revolutions
of the celestial bodies [themselves!] are of no real importance . . .
" That is,
frankly, a lot more profound statement.

Life does not depend on the distance to the Sun, or how bright the Sun
is, does
it? Life, and its expression, does not depend on the revolution of the
Earth
around the Sun either, in other words, on number of days or number of
years you
have traveled around the Sun. Mrs. Eddy writes, (S+H 310: 14-17
Science), " . .
. Science reveals Soul as God, untouched by sin and death,--as the
central Life
and intelligence around which circle harmoniously all things in the
systems of
Mind." Mrs. Eddy uses an analogy from astronomy taken from what is
known in the
history of science as "The Copernican Revolution." She writes, (No 6:
17-28),
"The evidence that the earth is motionless and the sun revolves around
our
planet, is as sensible and real as the evidence for disease; but Science
determines the evidence in both cases to be unreal. To material sense
it is
plain also that the error of the revolution of the sun around the
earth is more
apparent than the adverse but true Science of the stellar universe.
Copernicus
has shown that what appears real, to material sense and feeling, is
absolutely
unreal. Astronomy, optics, acoustics, and hydraulics are all at war
with the
testimony of the physical senses. This fact intimates that the laws of
Science
are mental, not material; and Christian Science demonstrates this."

Again Mrs. Eddy writes, "Our theories make the same mistake regarding
Soul and
body that Ptolemy made regarding the solar system. They insist that
soul is in
body and mind therefore tributary to matter. Astronomical science has
destroyed
the false theory as to the relations of the celestial bodies, and
Christian
Science will surely destroy the greater error as to our terrestrial
bodies."
(S+H 122:29-3). What progress has been made since we gave up even this
small
evidence of the senses in favor of the evidence of intelligence! Right
now we
are in what we might call the "The Mary-Baker-Eddyian Revolution" that
is
actually much more profound, because it requires us to give up -- not
just the
idea of the Earth being the center of the universe -- but to give up the
self-centered and false notion that we are each a little mind centered
in our
own little finite consciousnesses. It requires us to recognize that
the one,
infinite Mind is "the central Life and intelligence around which we
circle"
timelessly and agelessly all ideas of creation. The progress that came
from the
Copernican Revolution is clear -- from a few planets and stars on
celestial
spheres a few thousand miles away to the expanding universe billions
of light
years in extent known today. However, what will come from The Eddyian
Revolution
will be the limitless, infinite.

You know, Mrs. Eddy contrasts astronomy with Christian Science in a
letter
quoted in Years of Authority by Robert Peel to Rev. Frank L. Phalen.
She wrote:
"Christian Science like all Science must be discovered or learned. It
is not a
native of the senses and cometh not with observation. . . . Indeed the
testimony
of or the evidence before the senses contradict it but not more flatly
than they
disputed the facts of astronomy and then accepted them through the
understanding
. . . .It is only more difficult to understand Christian Science than
astronomy
because the former [Christian Science] wars against the whole mortal
man and the
latter [astronomy] against only a part of him." Then she concludes the
letter,
"I never know where to stop on this subject." (Mary Baker Eddy: Years of
Authority, Robert Peel, p. 112). Christ Jesus also talked about the
ever-present
now, about not waiting for the blessings of goodness, using an analogy
from
harvesting that his disciples could relate to. He said (John 4: 35, 36
to :)
"Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest?
Behold, I say
unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are
white already
to harvest." And then, in case there was any doubt as to what he was
talking
about, he added, "And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth
fruit unto
life eternal: . . . " So it is about life eternal that he was talking,
and that
we can be "gathering" it right now. Immortality is "already to
harvest". We have
but to "lift up [our] eyes, and look . . . ". Christ Jesus also proved
that now
was also forever. He demonstrated this in his instantaneous healings.
All
healings are actually instantaneous, because they are already true.

As the Christian Science lecturer, Jill Gooding, pointed out, the word
"medicine" comes from the same base word "mediate." But in Christian
Science we
do not need an intermediary between ourselves and healing. Christian
Science, in
other words, is im-mediate. Time is an important aspect of medical
healing --
maybe the most important. But time is no part of a Christian Science
healing
because Christian Science healing is not fixing, it is realizing what
was always
true. I can share an illustration of this. When I was in high school I
played
sport judo. We used to go to tournaments on weekends. I was in a
particular
contest when, in the excitement of the moment, my opponent grabbed my
finger and
snapped it back. I finished the match but could not move the finger.
My judo
instructor, Sensei Nakamura, was known to be knowledgeable about such
things and
from the protrusion under the skin in my hand told me to go to the
emergency
room as the finger was broken. My folks were at this tournament, so
they took me
to the emergency room of a nearby hospital. When we got there there
seemed to be
a lot of other people waiting, some needing serious attention, and my
Mom and I
started to pray for them (I have no doubt my Mom was already praying
about me).
This means that we were seeing the presence of divine Love which had
the effect
of dispelling fear. And there is no danger where there is no fear. I
remember
forgetting about my finger completely during this time. When my name
was called,
I went in and got an x-ray of the hand. When the doctor looked at the
x-ray he
showed me where the finger had been broken, that it was set nicely,
and that I
should not use the emergency room for checkups. To the great surprise
of my
Sensei, I was back the next week at judo. People at the dojo came over
to look
at my hand.

Now someone unacquainted with Christian Science healings might say
that that was
impossible. Why? Because it is supposed to take more time to heal a
broken bone.
Why is that? "Well, just because it takes more time, that's all,"
might be the
reply. Well, in this case it didn't take time to heal, it took Truth
to heal.
Time is not a factor in Christian Science healing. And Christ Jesus'
healings
never took time. Healing, then, is not about gaining something we
lack, but
rather seeing something we already have. Christ Jesus illustrated this
by
anointing the eyes of a blind man with clay he had made. He said "Go,
wash in
the pool of Siloam" to the blind man. We read then that the blind man,
" . . .
went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing" (John 9: 7).
Wasn't Jesus
asking him to wash away the materialistic notion that his sight was
dependent on
matter? He instructed him to see through the false belief that man is
made of
clay. The man did not regain something he had lost. Rather he got rid
of the
belief that he had ever lost anything. Jesus asked him to wash away
something --
drop the false belief that was keeping him from seeing his real,
spiritual
perfection.

So, healing is a letting go of a false or unreal notion that has
seemed to get
in the way of our seeing the Truth of our perfection. Being already
eternally
true, it does not take time for a Christian Science healing. This
washing away
the material concept is why healing in Christian Science can be called
"enlightenment" rather than "enheavyment". Spiritual healing is always
enlightening. Next time you feel inspired, ask yourself if you feel
heavier or
lighter. Jesus did say (Matt 11: 30), " . . . my yoke is easy, and my
burden is
light." He also said (Matt 5: 14), "Ye are the light of the world." It
is an
interesting and unworldly fact that taking Christ's burden upon you
will make
you lighter. Try it! So enlightenment is when a healing truth shines
through to
dispel the mist of unreality. It is a sign of our immortality because we
recognize the truth as true. When someone says something true, don't we
recognize it? Don't we say, "Ah yes, that's true!" But how could we have
recognized it if we had never heard it before? We could recognize it
only if we
already knew it. It was already a part of you, already part of your
immortal
identity. It is part of your own "Before Abraham was, I am"-ness, your
eternal
identity (John 8:58). If Christ Jesus were around today, I could
picture him
perhaps saying to the natural scientists, "Before the Pre-Cambrian, I
am."

It is also interesting that Christ Jesus demonstrated the eternality
of Life by,
for example, having friends in other millennia. We read in John about
this: "And
it came to pass . . . , [Jesus] took Peter and John and James, and
went up into
a mountain to pray. And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was
altered, and his raiment was white and glistering. And, behold, there
talked
with him two men, which were Moses and Elias: Who appeared in glory,
and spake
of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem." (Luke 9:
28-30). Now
Elias supposedly lived about 900 years before this, and Moses another
600 or
more years before that. Yet Jesus could discuss important things with
them. The
Bible only tells us here that he discussed, with Moses and Elias, the
importance
of the crucifixion and what it could accomplish for the enlightenment
of the
people at Jerusalem. Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health, "Life is
without
beginning and without end. Eternity, not time, expresses the thought
of Life,
and time is no part of eternity. One ceases in proportion as the other
is
recognized. Time is finite; eternity is forever infinite." So,
eternity is not
the sum of all time. Spiritual qualities do not come in limited
amounts. For
example, Christ Jesus did not have to take time to grow the wheat to
make the
loaves to feed the multitude. Supply was eternally present already.
Jesus
dispensed with the error of limitation, allowing him to demonstrate,
as Mrs.
Eddy writes (S+H 507: 28-29), "Creation is ever appearing, and must ever
continue to appear from the nature of its inexhaustible source."

This creation, including you, is an ever ongoing process. Did you ever
notice,
for example, that in the first part of Genesis, where Elohim, God, is
the
Creator, that God creates by letting? Let there be light, let there be a
firmament, let the waters be gathered, let the earth bring forth grass
and
trees, let us make man in our image and likeness, let them have
dominion. But in
the entirely different story starting in the second chapter of
Genesis, where it
is Jehovah, or Lord God, who is supposed to be the creator, that the
Lord God
creates by forming? The Lord God forms man of the dust of the ground,
He puts
"the man whom he had formed" into a garden called Eden, he then forms
every
beast of the field. Doesn't this "forming" notion of creation break
the second
commandment? The image and likeness of God is never confined in any
way; one
cannot have a graven, or formed, image and likeness of God. So letting
is God's
way of creating -- letting implies no actual beginning but rather an
allowing to
be expressed of something already created, doesn't it? Paul also spoke
of the
nowness of reality. He said, (II Cor 6: 02), "behold, now is the
accepted time;
behold, now is the day of salvation." Mrs. Eddy defines "Salvation" as
"Life,
Truth, and Love understood and demonstrated as supreme over all; sin,
sickness,
and death destroyed." So Paul was saying, that this is already a done
deal. Now
is the moment that Life, Truth, and Love are understood and
demonstrated by
destroying any sense of sin, sickness, or death. In a sense, this is
your
destiny.

There is nothing you can do about perfection -- you are stuck with it.
Immortality, health, individuality, joy, this is no way of escaping
from these
being your attributes because it is what you really are, right now.
Mrs. Eddy
writes, "Each individual must fill his own niche in time and
eternity." (Ret.
70:18-19). This is a "must" here. Why? Because God would not be
infinite in
expression without you. One God means there is only one of you in all of
creation. Filling your niche is something that no one can do for you;
you
naturally help infinite Mind complete Its infinite expression by being
yourself.
You are the best at being yourself too -- really no one else is going
to be very
good at it. Mrs. Eddy writes (S+H 266: 29-1), "Man is the idea of
Spirit; he
reflects the beatific presence, illuming the universe with light. Man is
deathless, spiritual. He is above sin or frailty. He does not cross
the barriers
of time into the vast forever of Life, but he coexists with God. So
let's start
enjoying our eternal coexistence right this moment.....