Reflection: Believing is Seeing
Imagine.
When you stand in front of a mirror, do you doubt your own existence? On the contrary, you are assured of your presence, able to see how that new haircut really looks good on you. If you lift your arm, the image in the mirror does likewise.
I love how Mary Baker Eddy, the author of the groundbreaking book Science and Health, uses this mirror analogy (p. 515–516) to explain our unbroken relationship to the Divine. The Bible says we’re made in God’s “image and likeness” (see Genesis 1:26–27). What does that really mean?
Eddy invites us to picture a mirror and to call it “Divine Science,” and then to call our real self its reflection. “Then note how true,” she adds, “is the reflection to its original. As the reflection of yourself appears in the mirror, so you, being spiritual, are the reflection of God.”
Eddy assures us that “All is infinite Mind and Its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all.” She points out that since Spirit is God, and man is God’s image and likeness, it follows that man — that’s you and me — is not material, but wholly spiritual (p. 468).
Think.
The stillness of prayer is vital in order to perceive this spiritual reality. Otherwise, there is so much “noise” in the busyness of our lives — we’re moving too fast to notice…
