Through a spiritual lens March 21, 2011 Issue

An unexpected guest

Joan Lakin Mikkelsen

When I visit my daughter and her family in St. Louis, there’s not a waking moment without happy action. So, when I volunteered to take one of the girls out for a stroll one day, I grabbed my camera, merely as an afterthought.

This particular day was a cold one, and I was on a familiar road, so I didn’t really expect to spend time looking for scenes to shoot. But just a few steps from the house, I glanced up a neighbor's driveway to see this deer. It was framed perfectly by the trees surrounding it and looked so majestic there at the top of the slope. I could see that the deer was on alert, but I was struck by the utter calm and elegance of its attentiveness. Immediately, I thought of the phrase from Mary Baker Eddy’s writings, which begins: “Undisturbed amid the jarring testimony of the material senses,…” And I snapped one frame.

When I got back to the house, I checked the full quote: “Undisturbed amid the jarring testimony of the material senses, Science, still enthroned, is unfolding to mortals the immutable, harmonious, divine Principle,—is unfolding Life and the universe, ever present and eternal” (Science and Health, p. 306).

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