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Early one afternoon on a sultry day in Northern Canada, I headed down to the lake to fertilize the lilies I had planted the previous summer. The lake was unusually calm, very still for the middle of the day. The rain would inevitably come and give the lilies a drink. After fertilizing and weeding, I looked up and was totally transfixed by the blackest-blue sky I had ever seen.
Earlier that morning I had pondered the word, preserved in the Christian Science Bible Lesson, titled “God the Preserver of Man.” To know that I am preserved by God, I’ve learned to trust that God is with me each day. God is not a far-off, sometimes present God, but God is always expressing tangible love, positive direction, and tender care.
Preserved means to me that God’s work is complete. In my prayer, I cherished how God had already “pre-served” me with good, with harmony, with healing in every facet of my day, even before I venture forth—it’s a God-planned, God-preserved day. God is the great architect, and His work, His designs, cannot be interrupted, disturbed, or destroyed. My joy is to witness what God sees and knows to be in perfect harmony. Each day gives me the opportunity to align thought with the design and outline from God.
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About the author
Kathryn Hoyt is a Christian Science practitioner who lives in Highland Ranch, Colorado, and spends her summers at a lakeside cabin north of Toronto, Canada.
