Editorial December 27, 1975 Issue

Our Need and Mind's Help

Geoffrey J. Barratt

Most of us at some time have felt alone and insecure in uncertainty or chronic need, like being lost in a desert. Maybe a decision has had to be made or some course of action taken. Perhaps we've wished that some infallible individual would tell us what to do. Well, reliable direction is present, and if we listen rightly—with spiritual attentiveness—we may hear that direction almost as clearly as though spoken by someone. Why? Because God, divine Mind, expresses Himself in whatever ways we need in order to be helped.

A woman who was healing a sickness according to the method of Christian Science writes: "All at once these questions came to me, as though spoken by some one, taking me away from my line of thought entirely: How is God an ever-present help? How does He know our earnest desires? Then, without waiting for me to think how, the answer came in the same way, God is conscious Mind." And she reports that as this influx of ideas continued, "I was healed instantly: every bad feeling was destroyed."^{Miscellaneous Writings, pp.430-431;}

God is ever-present divine Mind and Love. Zephaniah tells us, "The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing."^{Zeph. 3:17;} Because God is Love, our needs can be met in ways that are meaningful, understandable, practical for us—and these means may include a sense of being directly spoken to. In a manner of speaking, divine Mind has already shown us the road out—no matter what the trouble—and this way is explained in the inspired teachings of the Bible, and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

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