The Open Fount
Looking at a pond - a spiritual healing insight
When you look deeply into the bottom of a clear cold pond you have an absolutely clear (even
somewhat magnified) view of the rocks, animals, and plants that are before you. They are either
totally stationary or moving in a logical way. But if you only look at the surface of the water, you won’t
see what’s in front of you; you will see yourself mirrored perhaps, or what’s around you reflected. And
on the calmest day the slightest breeze--even your own breath on the water--makes the reflection
unstable, makes it appear unclear, and unpredictably moving, even though what really is in front of
you is clear and stable. When you don’t look deeply, you can’t see what’s really there. What you see
may be beautiful, or not, but everything seems to be changing and wavering without continuity or
logical stability, subject to the outside forces of changing winds and waves.
Similarly, if you look with deep spiritual sight at life, you see what’s real, predictable, and logical, held
by divine Principle in perfect harmony. However, if you just look at the surface of life, you see yourself
and what’s around you wavering, unsure, unstable, and subject to chance and change. It is our ability
to look beyond the surface of what appears to be life, to look beyond mortality, to look at life directly as
it really is, as God created it--spiritually--that gives us a true view of the reality of life. When we see the
true spiritual view of reality, we see order, stability, control, predictability, continuity, and health.
Mary Baker Eddy wrote in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (129:22-24), “We must look
deep into realism instead of accepting only the outward sense of things.” Christ Jesus also looked
past the mortal or surface appearance of things, as was shown when he was able to see beyond his
own crucifixion to the eternal life that he later demonstrated in resurrection
(See John 2:19) “ Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will
raise it up.” You, too, have the ability to see beyond the mortal surface of your life, to see the beautiful
image of your life as it really is here and now. Seeing this deeper reality raises our expectations,
enriches our experiences, and secures our trust in the goodness of divine Life, which blesses us and
those around us.
Return to insights main page The photos taken at Crystal Lake Camps.
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