Article June 19, 1995 Issue

The importance of moments

Marian English

The family trip to Yellowstone National Park was memorable for more than its beauty and grandeur. Our preschooler reached a personal milestone there. Oblivious of noisy sightseers watching a three-hundred-foot water-fall, our little son bent down and quietly tied his own shoelaces. It was the first time. To this day he remembers how diligently he had worked for that moment of triumph and how natural it was when it came.

Such moments of modest but memorable triumph occur in the practice of Christian healing, too—glimpses of self-discovery when we recognize our talents and abilities as the child, the reflection, of God. Those moments may range from the gentle dawning in thought of some spiritual truth to profound revelations of enlightenment. They can come during the stillness of prayer or like a little boy's small victory beside a roaring waterfall.

Yet such moments are not incidents of mere chance. God, as Mind, divine intelligence, would not reveal Himself in some haphazard way. There is a logical continuity to spiritual victory. Just as a little child works patiently to master a skill and incorporate it into his development, our moments of triumph over evil are the natural result of persistent effort focused on a specific accomplishment—continuing growth in understanding God.

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