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Out of time
It was a Friday afternoon many years ago, the day before my Christian Science teacher’s first annual association day meeting. I was part of the executive committee that was supposed to meet and help set things up at the church where the meeting would be held. And since it was our teacher’s very first association meeting, we wanted everything to go smoothly.
Punctuality has always been important to me, and since I had recently moved an hour and a half away from the city, I had left two and a half hours before set-up was to begin to give me plenty of time. Outside of the city, there had been a traffic incident and we were at a standstill for over an hour. I had become anxious and was having a difficult time praying.
When I finally came to the place to turn off the freeway, and was still about 40 minutes from the church with many lights and heavy traffic, it was 4:16 and the meeting would begin at 4:30. The realization that God was my pilot, not my copilot, struck my thought like a lightning bolt. I began to affirm that I had allowed plenty of time and no accident could have occurred to hinder the divine process going on for all (see Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 424).
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