Article November 6, 1995 Issue

"It's exciting up here!"

Kathryn H. Breslauer

We'd hired an experienced logger to take down a seventy-five-foot-tall mountain hemlock tree that had grown dangerously close to our house. We loved and enjoyed that tree. But it had grown to within a few inches of the roof peak, and we discovered the trunk pushing into the foundation of the house. Reluctantly we decided the tree had to come down.

We watched the logger ascend the tree, trimming off branches as he climbed. There was a rhythm to his work. Finally he reached the point where he could cut off the top ten feet. He attached ropes, sawed off the top, and two men on the ground pulled the loose piece down. We looked up and saw the logger swaying widely back and forth on what was left of the tree—sixty-five feet up. He shouted, "I don't know how it looks from down there, but it's exciting up here!"

I loved that joyous comment. And it roused me to get started on a writing project I had to do. Up to this point all the ideas that had come to mind had seemed repetitious, outmoded, and boring. Nothing had jelled. So I had simply put off writing it. Now I realized quickly that if we're "stuck in a rut," not able to complete or even to begin a worthwhile project, it is essential to tackle it from a higher viewpoint—a spiritual one. How do we reach that point? We can seek deeper insights through prayer, which spiritualizes consciousness. Persistent and thorough study of the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy, is also vitally helpful. Our thought is bound to be lifted higher as we listen more carefully to what God is telling us.

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