Sitting against the base of a cypress tree, he was not suspicious or forlorn as were some of the men around him. He was reading his Bible and greeted me warmly, saying, “How are you, brother? Grateful for your words, the food, and the book.” The book I’d given him about a month before was Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
This led to a discussion on religion, monotheism, Christianity, Gnosticism, and Christian Science, and on the questions: Who am I? What am I? What is this creation?
He then said he’d realized that he is one of God’s beautiful brush strokes—one among many millions of brush strokes—on a canvas of infinite light. And that he saw himself as a spiritual being or God’s masterpiece.
