Article January 17, 1920 Issue

For every act of daily living there is just the right place

The Christian Science Monitor

For every act of daily living there is just the right place. In these days when towns and cities seem so crowded one needs more than ever to prove this by knowing it. Many a person who makes this statement, however, thinks of some place on earth that he can see with his human eyes, instead of understanding that man really lives in Mind, not in any material body, house, or world. In this Mind which is God, without limits of any sort, there is plenty of room to think and act rightly. To dwell wholly there is the only way of true freedom and happiness. Mind is the one right place in which man forever belongs. Here alone can he carry on all of his actual, spiritual work. From Mind his real experience can never be separated.

When Isaac pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar to dwell there and started to dig wells of water, at once the herdmen of Gerar strove with his herdmen, saying, "The water is ours." In other words the people of this land thought, as in many a case to-day, that there was no room in that valley for strangers. It was only when Isaac did his work fully and found enough wells of springing water for all that he could say, "For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land." With patient joy he had set to work to know his right place and to be blessed of God for being there. Thus he proved that good is boundless and not limited to any one special spot.

Unless one sees the divine idea which this story sets forth, one may think of Isaac's well digging as showing merely how strife may be settled peaceably by the moving on to an unclaimed location. Isaac, however, was constantly depending on God for guidance. He knew indeed that his whole place of living was in infinite Principle, and as he knew this he found it manifest in just the way that those with him could understand. Instead of outlining humanly just what plot of ground was theirs, he was ever ready to be active as wisdom revealed what was best to him. The "Fear not, for I am with thee" of God made him sure of where in all his true being he dwelt and was bound to prosper unconfined by any material sense of things. For this I am of which he was ever conscious was certainly infinite Mind, not matter. By reasoning in accord with divine intelligence, Isaac was simply abiding in and with God in his daily thinking. Thus he was positive that the one spiritual consciousness was always broad enough for his prayerful living.

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