It’s been happening more and more frequently. I’m going about a normal day when a small spiritual insight, barely discernible, comes to me. It’s usually connected with something I’ve been thinking about, perhaps some problem I’ve been trying to solve or something I’ve read. I find that in that moment, if I stop what I’m doing and listen quietly to the thought, the thought starts to become more solid and clear. I begin to understand it in the light that Christian Science sheds—that God, divine Spirit, is all good and the only power; and God creates man, His spiritual image, to reflect that goodness and power without limit, imperfection, or material element. Through this lens, I am able to move forward on the problem or understand what I’ve read in a new and helpful light.
I see these times of spiritual insight as my burning bushes (see Exodus 3:1–5). As the Bible relates, when Moses was tending the sheep of his father-in-law, he spotted a bush that was burning but not burning up. He didn’t, however, shake his head in disbelief, run away in alarm, or get frustrated with something he couldn’t understand. He asked why it was happening. When God saw that Moses had “turned aside to see,” He called to Moses and told him that right there, on the humble land where he stood, he was actually on holy ground. It was an incredibly powerful insight, and it turned out to be the impetus for Moses’ world-shaking mission.
I’m convinced that these burning bushes are there for everyone. Here’s an example of when one appeared for me: One Saturday recently, as I was walking into the kitchen of my apartment to make myself some lunch, the thought came to me that when I’m conscious, even just a bit, of the presence of God, then reflecting His nature becomes my reality. Not a vague, otherworldly sense of reality, or a temporary, imperfect human version of it, but the actual thing—the solid, harmonious, spiritual, indestructible reality of God expressed in my experience. I was confident that I could claim my spiritual reality, right there, because, as the Bible says, I am made in God’s likeness (see Genesis 1:26). God is Spirit; therefore I am spiritual. God is Truth; so I naturally express integrity. God is Mind; therefore I reflect intelligence at every moment. God is Love; I mirror His love without limit or precondition.
