Editorial June 4, 2018 Issue

When the mist lifts

Rich Evans

We had just finished our midterm exams in Milan. My roommate and I used our three-day weekend to visit the Swiss Alps. The destination was Grindelwald to see the legendary alp, the Jungfrau. It was November. The Alpine green of the hills had faded and the season of snow-covered villages hadn’t arrived. Mountains and town were blanketed in fog. On our walk up the hill to an inn from the train station, there wasn’t an alp in sight. After a visit with the innkeeper, we slept.

At dawn’s light, I awoke. Defying the season, the sun shone, and right outside my window was a magnificent alp piercing the sky—the Jungfrau. The mist had lifted. Rather than feeling diminished by the magnitude and proximity of the mountain, I felt lifted up to it and its near-limitless dimensions.

This experience has frequently come to thought when the mist of mortal limits shrouds my experience at work or church, and it is perfectly expressed in the following statement from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by the Discoverer of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy: “Corporeal sense, or error, may seem to hide Truth, health, harmony, and Science, as the mist obscures the sun or the mountain; but Science, the sunshine of Truth, will melt away the shadow and reveal the celestial peaks” (p. 299).

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