Article August 23, 1952 Issue

"A PLACE PREPARED OF GOD"

MAX DUNAWAY

Many persons throughout the world today are seeking a better sense of place. To some the need may appear as a dwelling place, to others as a place in the business or professional world. By still others the need may be seen as a place of serenity in consciousness from which it is possible to meet calmly the varying problems that our changing world presents.

For all there is a true sense of place that will abundantly satisfy each individual need—"a place prepared of God," as it is so comfortingly expressed in these words from a verse in the Bible (Rev. 12:6): "And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God."

Does it seem strange, in the quotation above, that it should be in the wilderness that the "place prepared of God" was found? If so, it will be helpful to read the spiritual definition of "wilderness," as given in the Glossary of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. It reads in part (p. 597), "Spontaneity of thought and idea; the vestibule in which a material sense of things disappears, and spiritual sense unfolds the great facts of existence." As these words indicate, our God-prepared place is found only as thought, spontaneously turning to God, loosens its grasp on a material sense of things and permits itself to be enlightened by spiritual sense.

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