Purpose and the cornfield

My friend Arthur is a deep thinker and a fellow healer. Recently he wrote: “I was thinking about the similarity between a flower opening and Truth dawning upon consciousness. I farmed for several years and I watched plants from the smallest clovers to the tallest corn stalks grow, really unfold like a flower, as the plant would strive to be ready for the blossoming time. Not only is the plant's growth visible, but on a quiet, warm summer night, a corn stalk's growth can be heard. One has to be there to believe it, but during the first part of the growing season, a cornfield is noisy on a warm, quiet night.” (A wonderful secret that only a farmer would know!)

The response of the corn to sun and rain can almost be seen as a steady reaching up of joy from a grateful plant. I believe God has a holy purpose unfolding in each of us. Something special, beautiful, fulfilling. It’s a bit like Arthur’s corn. As we appreciate the warm sunshine of His presence, and drink in the inspiration of His love, our special purpose begins to grow and mature. Eddy writes "Spirit, God, gathers unformed thoughts into their proper channels, and unfolds these thoughts, even as He opens the petals of a holy purpose in order that the purpose may appear." (Science and Health)

Gratitude for the sunshine and rain, the nurturing and caring from outside ourselves, is itself a prayer. Arthur adds, ”The unfolding of our individual purpose is just as slow and just as sure as the unfolding of the plants in the field and the lambs in the flocks.”

Thank you, Arthur!