Jeff Johnstone emailed me the below picture he took outside of Glacier National Park.
I find a deep spiritual message in the scene it shares, in that right where all looks devastated and lost new life is springing from the ashes of temporal destruction. Look closely, and you’ll see little plants and flowers emerging from the dust. (Click on the picture and it should enlarge.)
“Life is eternal.” Mary Baker Eddy wrote. “We should find this out and begin the demonstration thereof.”
I imagine most everyone has trials and challenges they face at times where survival appears uncertain. It could be a lost job, a huge debt, an unfaithful partner, or a health crisis. Whatever the adversity, its heartening to remember that our life sustenance is ultimately rooted in Spirit, and we need never fear lack or loss of the temporal. Where the world fails us, God is there to continue supporting us.
The conditions and circumstances of the earth come and go, but Spirit is forever. Where all hope appears lost in the material, the divine Source can spring forth life anew.
Thanks Jeff for sharing.
In terms of a health crisis, your blog makes sense to me if we look for eternal life only in Spirit, not in matter. But in terms of our seeming physical experience, it seems that the termination of matter (death) is very real. I have been noticing the premature passing of many Christian Scientists. I myself have come to believe that if life is not demonstrated in this human experience, nothing is really lost. I don’t know if that is a good thing or a bad thing, but thinking otherwise would lead to serious discouragment.