Article November 10, 1973 Issue

Facing the Light of Spiritual Truth

DOROTHY TURNBULL

Sitting at my desk one cold but lovely sunny morning, I heard a loud singing of birds. I looked out the window. There, in the leafless tree at the bottom of the garden, I counted over thirty birds. All, without exception, were facing the sun and singing. I was reminded of the following words by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science: "Nature voices natural, spiritual law and divine Love, but human belief misinterprets nature. ... Suns and planets teach grand lessons. The stars make night beautiful, and the leaflet turns naturally towards the light." Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 240; I thought, "How true this is, for when we confidently face the sunlight of Truth, we too can sing."

Gazing into the darkness of human discord and wrong, with our back to Truth, we sometimes feel very far from singing. In fact, the longer we look at a difficulty, claiming it as our own, the more likely are we to sink into the depths of despair.

A wealth of instruction lies in the following paragraph from the aforementioned book, the textbook of Christian Science: "If we look to the body for pleasure, we find pain; for Life, we find death; for Truth, we find error; for Spirit, we find its opposite, matter. Now reverse this action. Look away from the body into Truth and Love, the Principle of all happiness, harmony, and immortality. Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionably to their occupancy of your thoughts." pp. 260, 261;

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