Article March 9, 1992 Issue

Extending the morning thought

A new day may symbolize freshness and peace. But there's no reason we can't experience this dawn every waking hour.

James Scott Rosebush

Our flight lifted easily through the cloudless summer sky as the brilliant sun produced a sparkling sea and shoreline below. It was a calm flight, free of turbulence and quite unlike the previous afternoon when we encountered a buildup of heat, collisions of air masses, clouds, and thunderstorms. Traveling frequently in warm climates, I had become accustomed to these dramatic afternoon weather patterns.

But now, on this still morning, the spiritual reality of God's perfect control of the universe was easy to recognize. I remembered so many Biblical figures who were inspired by the freshness and newness of the morning. "If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea" wrote the Psalmist; "even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me." And Job's friend Zophar, said, "Thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning." Wasn't it this morning consciousness with which Christ Jesus settled the waves in the storm-tossed night? This consciousness—this clarity of thought or inspiration—I began to see, was not confined to the hours of 6 to 8 a.m. It can be found at noon and in darkest night, too.

Throughout time, morning has symbolized awakening, alertness, purity, innocence, gentleness, calm, anticipation, freshness, regeneration. Christian Science sees morning in very much these same terms—and enlarges on them. In Science and Health, the Christian Science textbook by Mary Baker Eddy, morning is described as "light; symbol of Truth; revelation and progress." Morning is the gentle confirmation that God is still All and that He holds creation in His arms of love; that He is omnipotent, omnipresent good. Understanding and sincerely accepting God's universal power and presence helps to defeat aggressive suggestions of another power or the argument that there is real power in evil or in the violence and fear that seem to be the means of evil.

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