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A floral lesson
Two red roses were delivered to our table, which came from the local flower shop. The courier wouldn’t say who had ordered them. My wife and I were on a four-day break at a seaside resort, and each morning we would walk from the motel and order breakfast at a nearby outdoor café.
When I went to pay the bill, I asked the owner if she had arranged the flower delivery. She admitted she had, and said with great feeling, “You don’t know what a difference you’ve made in my life over the last four days!” She didn’t explain, and I didn’t feel the need to ask. During our brief morning visits to the café, we had passed the time with the owner, but hadn’t discussed any issues of deep import or heard of any problems in her life. And yet, those roses …
Rather than being puzzled over this moving end to our holiday, we returned home, reflecting on the often unseen way in which we can benefit each other. When our thoughts and actions are God-centered, we cannot help but naturally and spontaneously reflect the light and intelligence of divine Life, Truth, and Love. This influence of God, good, has nothing to do with personality, will, advice, or opinion. Rather, through the lens of Christian humility, our whole being is transparent to the spiritual fact of the one God, the one Ego (see Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 588), the one “I AM” (see Exodus 3:14), who includes all spiritual individuality. When presented with the daunting mission of leading the children of Israel out of Egypt, Moses questioned God as to his fitness for the task. The answer was simple, direct, and powerful: to tell the children of Israel “I AM hath sent me unto you” (see Exodus 3:11–14).
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