Acorns and bumblebees! Who would expect answers to the perplexing problems of the human struggle to come through such simple objects in nature?
Once a Christian Scientist had a struggle with herself that was the culmination of months of heavy demands for spiritual growth. The future held only the promise of deeper demands. At such times any heart can be heavy with its own inadequacy. The evidence of spirituality glimpsed from moments of self-surrender to God seemed as unable to meet the day's demands as did the few loaves and fishes with which the disciples responded to Christ Jesus' request, "Give ye them to eat." Matt. 14:16; But today's hungering multitudes must be fed, too, and the Christ, Truth, still demands, "Give ye them to eat." When anyone's supply of spirituality seems too small for him to respond to such a demand, he then must face up to his own responsibility to grow.
After an all-night tussle with the belief in personal inadequacies that seemed to be blocking her ability to meet the day's demands, the Christian Scientist went out walking. The vast necessity to grow loomed before her. A small acorn dropped to the sidewalk, and she saw within it the growing power necessary for its becoming a large oak tree; this power was not a private possession of the acorn—it was inherent in the creative scheme of things.
