Imagine that you're trapped in a small space. It's dark and cramped. You're frustrated by the sounds you can hear outside but cannot identify. More than anything, you just want to be free. Motivated by this desire, you start to break open your shell. Peck by peck you discover freedom, a freedom that promises to increase day by day until you have the whole blue sky to fly in. How you'll soar once you realize that the altitudes were already there, long before you pecked open the shell.
This natural mastery of flight may be unique to birds and other winged creatures—at least for now—but the kind of freedom that comes from leaving limitations behind is something that anyone can experience. In my own life, for example, my study of the Bible and Science and Health has opened my eyes to the possibilities for healing and regeneration and has given me an ever-expanding sense of liberation. To know something of the one, infinite God is to know something of one's own identity as His limitless, spiritual idea. As the nature of this identity becomes clear, one finds oneself capable of breaking free from the confines of sickness or disease of any kind.
Ever since I lay on the summer grass as a child and watched the swallows' spectacular mastery of flight, I have thought that healing is something like that. Freedom and healing exist in the limitless space of consciousness and are always available. Birds continue to teach me wonderful lessons. Let me share one.
