Article October 31, 1931 Issue

Vision

VERNITA SEELEY

A student of Christian Science was praying earnestly over a seemingly difficult problem. As she looked across the room and through the window, her eye was caught by and followed the movements of carpenters who were engaged on a building. Beyond them rose the smoke of a fire where refuse was being burned. This lot, adjoining the student's orderly garden, was chaos, apparently spoiling the beauty of her own home.

The student, seeing the owner looking about his new home site, went out to give him a word of welcome, although in her heart she was thinking how all this tearing up and construction was molesting the quiet of the old order. The new neighbor was full of joy and enthusiasm. Holding a vision of his completed home and garden, he told of glistening walls, bright tiled roof, and a flower garden. The spirit of the vision was caught by the Christian Scientist, and thereafter the next-door property was to her no longer distorted and ugly, for the picture of the intermediate steps was swept away in the gladness of seeing what the home would be when the work was finished.

Lifting this lesson into the spiritual realm, the student saw that the important thing was to have the vision—the vision that all is in reality God and His ideas, universally harmonious. It is the light that dispels the darkness of disfiguring sense-testimony, whether it be a physical, financial, church, or human relationship problem. The vision always presents the true picture of God's completed work; in other words, the actuality of good, of "God with us."

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