EVERY YEAR ON EASTER SUNDAY, millions of Christians celebrate Jesus' resurrection of his body from the dead some 2,000 years ago. This time-honored event deserves recognition and celebration. Yet it's also vital to realize that a resurrection of thought is a present possibility for each of us to experience in some degree every day of our lives.
Mary Baker Eddy explained that from a spiritual perspective resurrection can be understood as: "Spiritualization of thought; a new and higher idea of immortality, or spiritual existence; material belief yielding to spiritual understanding" (Science and Health, p. 593).
The first time I glimpsed what resurrection means outside of the usual religious context was while I stood in front of a file cabinet gazing up at the big clock between my desk and my boss's office in City Hall where I worked. I was checking to see if I had time to work on pressing projects before some meetings started. Suddenly I realized that this was the wrong question. My spiritual intuition told me that the more fundamental question was: How is God expressing His divine qualities this very moment?
