Welcome to the Christian Science Daily Lift.

Robin Hoaglin is starting off this week's inspiration with her lift. We are not fragile.

She's a Christian Science practitioner and teacher from Centerville, Massachusetts.

Watching a six-year-old from Centerville, Massachusetts.

Watching a six-year-old erase the letter L,

brush the paper clean,

and draw a new one to better fit the O-V-E she had already written,

got me thinking about that letter L. What had happened to it on paper?

Its erasure and reinsertion never actually touched the specific idea of L. External circumstances did not define it or confine it.

There are times when it feels as though there is an effort to erase us

or to eliminate our voices individually or collectively.

But time and again, we see modest to momentous examples of the indestructibility of God's universe.

In defining our true nature, Mary Baker Eddy wrote in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

that we, individually and collectively, are the compound idea of God, including all right

ideas, and that which has no separate mind from God.

Spiritual ideas are not erasable.

God-derived qualities are permanent. Glimsing these spiritual truths opens fresh possibilities, enabling a beautiful resilience in facing any form of adversity.

My grandfather had a long, productive career as a chief engineer,

but learned one day that his whole department was closing immediately

as a new government policy impacted his company.

And he lost his job.

The employment prospects for an older engineer at that time were

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