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Spiritual Short

Soaring aspirations

From the February 2025 issue of The Christian Science Journal


My friend and I were having lunch outside on a beautiful day, when he commented on all the birds he was seeing above. He insisted there were hundreds of them soaring way above us, but I only saw the clear blue sky. 

Finally, some of the birds’ wings caught the sunlight at just the right angle, and there they were—hundreds of them gracefully flying together. From then on, I knew how to look for these amazing birds and watch them fly high above in ethereal flocks. I reveled in seeing something new of God’s creation, like the psalmist who wrote, “Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law” (Psalms 119:18).

In her writings Mary Baker Eddy gives us a spiritual interpretation of birds when she writes, “The fowls, which fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven, correspond to aspirations soaring beyond and above corporeality to the understanding of the incorporeal and divine Principle, Love” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, pp. 511–512).

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