Article July 2, 1938 Issue

Look Up!

MARJORIE C. MULOCK

To one taking a walk in the country in the early spring, how drab and dull the way may seem if the gaze is directed downwards! He may see a muddy road, littered with broken branches and withered leaves, fields colorless and lifeless, the grass bent and downtrodden, and perhaps in the lea of a bank a pile of melting snow. But let him look up, and what a glorious sight meets the eye—the loveliness of it all—trees veiled in cloudy green, buds swelling into leaf, birds darting through the clear air, the tender blue of the sky, and, bathing all with beauty and warmth, the golden sunshine!

Which way are we looking as we travel along the road of human life? Up, or down? If thought is fixed on matter, on self, or on any of the myriad forms of error, the outlook may indeed seem dreary and desolate, difficult and discouraging. It is not really an outlook, but an inward look—eyes clouded and dimmed by a false sense of self. Christ Jesus, the great Way-shower, even when he was foretelling the destruction of Jerusalem, said to his followers, "Then look up, and lift your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh."

Perhaps a claim of sickness seems so real to us that it is all we see; it fills our mental horizon with its suggestions of fear, pain, and gloom. Christian Science teaches us at such a time to look up, to lift our thoughts to a higher sense of creation, to the contemplation of something better, truer, more spiritual; for instance, to gratitude for God's goodness and the remembrance of His love; to the realization of perfect God and His perfect creation. As this course is persisted in, and we steadily look up to behold the goodness of God and man in His image and likeness, we find the golden sunshine of His presence, the tenderness and beauty of His love, changing the dreary prospect to one of harmony and peace.

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