I remember looking out a window many years ago onto a sun-filled garden and a familiar scene: a lilac tree, flowers, a lawn where a child was playing, a cat curled up among the raspberry canes. And I could hear a thrush singing from the rooftop.
I was a young student of Christian Science then, and quite suddenly there burst upon me the realization, Why there is oneness everywhere! I viewed all that lay before me as relating to God, to Truth, to Life. Quickly the realization followed that this relationship was not physical but spiritually mental, the relationship of spiritual ideas to Spirit, Mind, God. I caught a glimpse of the fact that my own relation to God was spiritual and that this little world before me was not "my" little world but hinted at the divine wholeness. Idea is one with its creative Mind.
Then, I asked myself, is not the oneness of God, His wholeness, which includes His greater and lesser ideas, all we can ever truly know and understand? The pattern of divine wholeness and unity spoke intelligibly to me of God, its implication full of promise. This insight diffused a reverence, a glow, in consciousness that had never been there when I had contemplated this homely scene in terms of separate, unconnected, material forms and existences. Joyfully I recalled a line from the prayer Christ Jesus taught his disciples: "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. 6:9. In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy gives the spiritual sense of this reverent declaration: "Adorable One."Science and Health, p. 16.
