Your Daily Lift August 15, 2011 Issue

Your Daily Lift is a two-minute podcast every weekday with Christian Science lecturers. 

We can soar

Linda Stocks-Copley

Sometimes the tiniest things can teach us powerful lessons. As I was sitting in the garden one early morning, my thought was dark with despair. A major challenge consumed my thinking. There seemed to be no way out. Suddenly a fluttering sound drew my attention to a little butterfly scrambling up the side of the two-foot-high garden wall. About halfway up, it dropped back down to the stony ground. Then it began fluttering back up again. I watched, intrigued, as the scenario was repeated over and over, wondering what it was trying to achieve or whether it was injured in some way. 

Eventually the situation seemed quite hopeless, and the good Samaritan in me came out. On its next attempt, I gently scooped it into the palm of my hand and lifted it up the last few inches to the top of the wall. Immediately it flew off with a burst of energy. The transformation from desperate to exuberantly vital was remarkable. 

Amazed, I turned my thought to God and asked, “What was that all about?” Like a shaft of sunlight, the answer came. There had been nothing wrong. The little creature was just mesmerized by the white wall. It had only to turn its back on that wall to see that it had the whole garden to fly in.

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