Last Friday at 3:30 a.m., my wife and I went out to our patio, cuddled up together on our backs in our swing hammock, threw a blanket over us and looked up, scanning the heavens for meteors shooting through the sky as part of the well publicized Perseid meteor shower predicted for that night.

It was fun to spot the shooting stars jetting here and there without warning across the night sky. It was a bit hazy, so we didn’t see large numbers but still saw many meteors, some very impressive.

As I watched, I marveled at the immensity of the universe we live in, and the countless unknowns in space we have yet to discover or understand.

“Where did that meteor come from? What did it carry? How long did it travel? What was its history?” and more questions clamored for answers.

The super brief moment my eye glimpsed a path of light across the dark created by a meteor was but a nano-second compared to the time and space already traveled by that meteor. It was an extremely small glimpse of something much bigger to understand.

Then I thought about the universe of Spirit we study everyday in Christian Science.

How many “shooting stars” streak across our path each day that offer a super brief glimpse into something much bigger we have yet to understand? And if we did understand, we’d be much better for it?

For instance, take a contented mother ambling peacefully through the park with a little child in hand, smile on face, and no hurry to go anywhere? What’s the history behind the contentedness? What enables her to feel the peace? Why is she in no hurry to go anywhere? What’s her secret? Are there spiritual lessons to learn?

We often pass evidences of spiritual success all around but take little notice. We might view them as we view shooting stars. We see a streak of light, momentarily open our eyes in awe, applauded the view and then move on to the next activity without taking a valuable lesson with us.

Evidences of God’s beautiful, intelligent and lovely creation are all around. It’s in the smile of a stranger’s face, in the good deed of a neighbor, in the unselfish act from an unexpected source, in the sun shining into a dark corner and making it a happier space.

You might want to more keenly notice the “shooting stars” of your life and learn from them. There may be lessons to gain.