A reader sent me these pictures today.

Can you find spiritual lessons in them?

The first question I asked was, “Can humans hold the sun in their hands?”

The answer is obviously “No,” but the picture tells a different story.

I thought about other examples where the lesser appears to master and control the greater.

For example, there is much talk in the press today about recessionary conditions in the US economy. It would appear that the sub-prime fall-out, the high price of oil, and expense of war in Iraq are sapping our livelihood and lowering our standard of living. If we were to buy into this summary, our demonstration of supply might feel gripped within the ever tightening hands of fear, and belief of shortage and lack.

But if we understand our supply is not human, not material, and not temporal at the mercy of fear-cycles, we can have supply despite a recession. The greater is never at the mercy of the lesser.

We have to back away from what appears to be a shrinking, small amount of supply, and regain the correct picture of God as infinite supply, and bigger than any quantity the human mind can comprehend.

From a material point of view resources might appear limited, small and meager, like the little sun in the big fingers. But from a divine vantage point of God as the source of all supply, resources are infinite, unending and ever flowing.

We must not be deceived by the human picture!

You might have your own examples to share of the lesser trying to limit the greater…

“Mortal man has made a covenant with his eyes to belittle Deity with human conceptions. In league with material sense, mortals take limited views of all things.” Mary Baker Eddy