Article August 3, 2009 Issue

TRAVELING FROM EARTH TO HEAVEN

A view of life that proves the presence of good—of God—here and now.

BY NATE TALBOT

Suppose a young mother were to tell you, as she told me, the following account. What would you make of it?

She tells me of a walk in the park with her child and some friends. She is relatively new to Christian Science. And she loves the liberating truths she is learning. Suddenly she notices some distance away her little boy has climbed nearly to the top of a very high slide. He falters, then falls off the slide. She and her friend, frozen for a moment, race to the slide. She witnesses something truly awesome. It's as though her child is floating downward like a feather. She reaches the base of the slide just as he reaches the ground, completely unharmed.