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| "Loveland Pass, Colorado" photo by Aaron Springston |
“I have given everything I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place] all the meaning that it has for me.”
While walking in a cemetery, I was struck by how individuals would look at the grave markers and their possible meaning. There is a plot which has a mother and father and six children, all of whom died before reaching adolescence. In another part of the maze, there is a grave totally covered with crystals of varying sizes. The only thing the marker says is their surname. As I pondered the stories behind these stones and markers, I realized how very true it is that the meaning of anything is exactly what we give to it. Perhaps that's why we like to be in groups, such as churches or families, so there will be others who know where we're "coming from". And maybe that's why we're afraid to step outside of long-held beliefs. To me, the realization that we can give up belief and all walk together in Truth is far more unifying than wandering through changeable illusions. What heady heights await us!
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
"The only fact concerning any material concept is, that it is neither scientific nor eternal, but subject to change and dissolution."
Science & Health Page 297:16-19
