Gaining The Right View of Creation

I’m grateful for how Christian Science helps us to think rightly. How important it is to learn that the way in which we think has much to do with what we have learned about various things, what goes on, or what we see.

In my backyard different birds gather to pick various grains, and it’s so beautiful to see a mixture of God’s creation. Occasionally a hawk comes by, and one time I saw it with a chipmunk. One day I saw this hawk on a branch facing away from me, and this time I prayed this way: “You are God’s loving creation, you do not need another chipmunk, but will find what you are to eat.” That’s all I said, and in a few seconds it flew away. About fifteen to twenty minutes later, the hawk came back and stood right below my window. I could see it start to pick up little things from the grass to eat, and then it flew away.

I was so humbly touched by this because it was as if the hawk was telling me, or showing me, it doesn’t need to eat another, to hurt another. I am so grateful for Christian Science because through it I have a different view of our world, I know now how to think differently about everything, and how much that counts.