An experience of infinite Life

[Ref. ss #15]

An experience of infinite Life….. which chases away feelings of sadness, remorse for mistakes etc. Everyone is a part of God’s creation and so we are all crucial to Infinity!

When my daughter Heather was in her late teens she wanted to make a mobile sculpture to capture the thought of Infinity and came up with something unique. She split up some mirrors and mounted them on a disc which she suspended slantwise in the middle of a hoop. How simple was that?  

“What does it mean?” I asked her.

Depending on where we stand each of these mirrors seems to show a part of eternity. We all really have completeness of uniformity.

“The Hoop represents Infinity -  it’ s an infinite circle with no start or finish. Each little mirror reflects a part of the hoop looking like a straight line. But actually straight lines are never really straight as nothing on the surface of the earth, which is round, can be straight; so everything that looks like a straight line is really a part of infinity!”

Everything we do comes from a thought. It might look material but we improve the experience by knowing we are doing good, by expressing God.

Heather and I shared an experience of this.

One day while I was giving my mother a party she rang me up from college saying that she had a very sore eye and her teacher told her to go to the College Nurse who had told her to get in touch with me in order to get an appointment for her to see a doctor. I downed everything and picked her up and took her to a chemist who inspected the eye and said she had nothing in it! I then made an appointment to see the doctor at the end of the day!

As Christian Scientists it was unusual for us to be sitting in a Doctor’s surgery so instead we waited outside in the car and prayed. While we were thinking “Why are we were here if God was taking care of everything?”, I noticed Heather was fingering around her forehead with her long elegant hands. So I asked her what she had been doing that morning when the irritation started and she mentioned developing negatives in Photography. I suddenly realised that she had been handling acids. So it was obvious that we needed to see that nothing could irritate an idea of God. She was untouched by an activity she was asked to do at College.  

Perhaps, I mentioned to her, that this was an indication that it might be time to give up this affectation which had become an unconscious habit!

She smiled and said she didn’t know why we were at the Doctors.  So I suggested that we were being obedient to the College who’s nurse had in her records that we were Christian Scientists but couldn’t understand how it worked. 

We could see that everyone we met were part of God’s infinite creation, including the doctor we were about to see. It was then that I remembered her sculpture and mentioned that we all reflected infinity like the broken mirrors. The doctor was made by God and was part of spiritual infinity too even though she might not think it.

With that thought we went in happily to see the doctor and I told her what I thought had happened but she mentioned a disease and wrote out a prescription and told us if she didn’t take the medicine her eye would be gummed tight the following morning and infection would set in! 

We both knew we had aligned ourselves with our ever present Infinite God and now having done this, all would be OK.

However on our way home, I got the medicine and left iton the kitchen counter for Heather to make the decision. Nothing more was said on the subject. I noticed the next morning that the eye was fine and the bottle was unopened.  

Whoever we see and are with, despite opposing views, we can always remember never to be frightened by people’s verdicts.  They may be right materially speaking, but whatever they think of in terms of ‘straight ‘facts, perhaps even googling material evidence to come up with a medical diagnosis, they are still part of Infinity; part of the wonder of infinite goodness despite their proclivities, and we can always reap the benefits by including them in it!

This demonstration gave Heather a real boost and the new work experience she was to start a couple of days later became more attractive and less intimidating; travelng in and out of London, waisting no time, she immediately found herself designing and constructing hats for Harrods!