Mom Saw In The Mist a lesson for me and my brother. I was a teenager at the time, but the metaphor has come in handy as an adult.
Our family was on its first long-distance car trip, and stayed the first night in a cabin on a mountainside. It was raining hard all night. The next morning, the sun shone as we drove down the mountain, but the mist kept us from seeing the valley. Mom said that the mist obscuring the view was a little like when our true identity is temporarily hidden by sickness or sin. Like the beautiful valley, our spiritual, healthy self—our only real self—has been there all along.
Mrs. Eddy uses this analogy of mist in Science and Health when she says, "Corporeal sense, or error, may seem to hide Truth, health, harmony, and Science, as the mist obscures the sun or the mountain; but Science, the sunshine of Truth, will melt away the shadow and reveal the celestial peaks" (p. 299).
