Above the Mist

MARGARET A. SMITH

Our holiday trip up the mountain was begun on a very foggy morning. As the trolley went slowly up the steep incline, the fog grew denser, the beautiful view which we knew to be there was wholly obscured, and we gathered our wraps about us in protection against the chill drizzle through which we were passing. At the point where we changed cars for the last lap of our journey, we stood for a few moments gazing into space and wondering what might lie beyond the enveloping mist. Then into our car! And again onward and upward we sped through the clouds, until suddenly we emerged into the glorious sunshine above them! Words are inadequate to describe the beauty and grandeur of the view from the top. We moved about entranced. Beneath us, stretching for endless miles, were white, billowy clouds—the fog through which we had passed—effectively shutting off the world below. Then, as the day advanced, very slowly the mist began to disperse, giving us a glimpse of the wondrous beauty which had been hidden from our view during the steep ascent.

What a symbol of earth's journey! How often the mists of materialism shut off the grandeur of the view as we ascend, one after another, the mountains along life's pathway. And still we journey on until, perhaps after some unusually rugged climb, a glimpse of the glory and beauty by which we are constantly surrounded is suddenly revealed to us, and we stand silently gazing in awe and wonder, realizing something of what Moses may have experienced when he heard the words, "Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground."

Life is, always has been, and always will be in reality spiritual, perfect, eternal. Do we seem to be harried by financial cares; does the business load seem greater than we can bear; or are we of those with a seemingly unsolvable employment problem? The mist is merely obscuring our view! We need to keep on going, learning at each step of the road that God's presence and power are always available, here and now. Perhaps we have seemed at times to be almost lost in the fog. We ask our way of fellow travelers. Then loving hands of helpfulness are stretched out to us, and instantly the clouds disperse. Another lesson has been learned; another step taken, as we realize anew that there is no place where God is not. Again we are able to see the sun, and to go forward with greater courage. How well Mrs. Eddy has expressed this in our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 299): "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."

God is never absent. Deep down in the valley and on the topmost peak of the heights, God is omnipotent. Our mission is to reflect the divine presence; and we can so direct our thinking that this presence will be silently reflected wherever we may be; thus we become greater transparencies for the healing power of Christ, Truth. When we learn to understand God and the true status of man, we shall know of a certainty that the real man, the man of God's creating, can never suffer limitation of any description. "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth," said the Master; and in Genesis we read, "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." Since God is Spirit and man is His image and likeness, the real man must be spiritual and perfect, untouched by error of any kind. As thought rises and is steadily held high above the mortal illusions by which we seem to be surrounded, errors of belief fade from our consciousness, and the eternal verities of being are ever more clearly realized.

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