Article July 7, 1951 Issue

"WHEN THE WINDS OF GOD BLOW"

WILLY BLOK HANSON

"Then, when the winds of God blow, we shall not hug our tatters close about us." These words of Mary Baker Eddy's on page 201 of her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," came to a student of Christian Science while she was standing enjoying a fresh sea breeze coming through the open window of her house in a very hot country. And just as the wind blew away the heat from her warm face, the spiritual contemplation of this sentence blew away the heat of material ponderings she had allowed to weigh upon her thoughts during the day.

When in the quietness of spiritual light she began to analyze her thinking to see what had made her hug the tatters of negative, unfruitful brooding close about her, the student could plainly see it had been fear, or lack of faith in the omnipresence of God, good. Mrs. Eddy speaks of fear and heat as synonymous, and in the Glossary of Science and Health (p. 597) she defines "wind," in part, as "that which indicates the might of omnipotence and the movements of God's spiritual government, encompassing all things."

How important, then, that we take care to stay in the winds of "God's spiritual government," rather than submit ourselves to any belief of heat with all the irritations attached to it! For what else is heat in the light of divine Science but thoughts of ignorance, friction, and fear, whether manifested on the body or in so-called climate. Heat is unknown in the universe of the one Mind, where the friction of conflicting motives is nonexistent because impossible.

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