“Be still, and know that I am God” (Psalms 46:10). Those words from the Bible came instantly to thought at six o’clock one morning this past summer as I walked out onto the deck of a house overlooking an inlet of the Mystic River in Connecticut.

The water was silent and still. So were the birds. But the reflections sang a song as beautiful as any I’d ever heard—or seen!

The deep green foliage of the trees lay in front of me—on the river banks and also in the water. Not one burst of variegated color, but two! Everything doubled. Maples, birches, pines, oaks, all pressing forward to catch my attention without causing so much as a ripple across the sky-filled surface.

Those trees were indicating “infinite individuality,” with “all form and comeliness,” to borrow two phrases from Mary Baker Eddy’s description of the way in which God, “the one Mind or Spirit,” is expressed (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 281).

And we all have a firm, meaningful responsibility to be actively engaged in that expression—or, for me on that flawless summer morning, reflection—of Mind-derived qualities, because the “image of God” is what we actually are (Genesis 1:27).

In his second letter to the church in Corinth, the Apostle Paul put it this way: “We Christians have no veil over our faces; we can be mirrors that brightly reflect the glory of the Lord.” He continued: “And as the Spirit of the Lord works within us, we become more and more like him” (II Corinthians, 3:18, The Living Bible).

We best reflect “the glory of the Lord” when we are mentally still and know that the one divine Mind, God, prevails.

How richly we are spiritually equipped to handle this task as metaphorical mirrors!

Reflections of nature’s beauty are at their clearest, most radiant, and inspiring when the surface of a body of water is still (no breeze, no undercurrents, and not too many fish popping up).

Similarly, we best reflect “the glory of the Lord” when we are mentally still and know that the one divine Mind, God, prevails over the clamor of so-called material existence. Hearts are changed, perspectives adjusted, and healing happens—mental and physical. God’s tender love fills our consciousness. We discover our true spiritual identity. We feel completely in harmony with God’s nature and with what we are as His children.

As Robert Ellis Key writes of God in one of his poems:

All of us—men, women, and children—do this naturally, because, as Mary Baker Eddy explained, “Man, as the idea or image and likeness of the infinite God, is a compound, complex idea or likeness of the infinite one, or one infinite, whose image is the reflection of all that is real and eternal in infinite identity” (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 239).

And in the Christian Science textbook, Mrs. Eddy makes a foundational statement relevant to our everyday lives when she writes, “All that God imparts moves in accord with Him, reflecting goodness and power” (Science and Health, p. 515).

In the stillness of that summer morning I was as effortlessly engaged in the activity of reflection as the river inlet was in reflecting those trees and river banks. My conclusions pointed vividly and unforgettably to the truth that we clearly reflect the one infinite God.