A traveler who was about to depart from Geneva, Switzerland, at a very early hour before sunrise stepped out on the balcony of his hotel room in the hope of obtaining a last glimpse of Mont Blanc. As he did so, his consciousness and vision were filled with the beauty of the luminous morning star. Never had he seen such a brilliant star, and he felt completely suffused with its radiance. Even in the light of dawning day, this star shone with such luster that it enhanced the beauty of the landscape with a soft glow.
During the few moments that he stood there he thought of the power of the Christ light which appeared to the shepherds and to the Wisemen as a star which they were impelled to follow to the manger in Bethlehem, where lay a babe whom they recognized as the one who would demonstrate for humanity that the Christ is the manifestation of God's love, power, and presence with men. No star in the material heavens could have brought such a revelation, but the light of spiritual intelligence pierced the darkness of material beliefs, and as Truth always comes to each "one where he is, or where he is thinking, so this gleam of spiritual enlightenment undoubtedly appeared to the shepherds and the Wisemen as a star, for they were accustomed to contemplating the stars and looking to them for guidance in the darkness of the night. Thus the appearing of the daystar was to them a more or less natural phenomenon.
Today Christian Science is the star, or light, of intelligence guiding humanity to truth, to the understanding of God and of man as His image and likeness. We follow this light of Truth by demonstrating the Christ in our daily lives and by being wakeful shepherds, shepherding our thoughts, keeping them stayed on the allness of God's love and presence and on man's expression of God's perfection, thus defending the fold of consciousness against the wolves of erroneous, sick, and sinful suggestions. Even during nights of fear, doubt, discouragement, loneliness, failure, or lack, the star of Christian Science makes clear to men how to continue shepherding their flocks of thoughts, how to cherish the lamblike qualities of innocence, purity, and love, which emanate from our Father-Mother God and which behold the Christ.
