Editorial September 11, 1976 Issue

We Can Get There from Here

Peter J. Henniker-Heaton

Comforting to readers of Mary Baker Eddy's writings are her many assurances of joy and peace and God's loving care for us. She can also strike a sterner note. For instance: "Physical torture affords but a slight illustration of the pangs which come to one upon whom the world of sense falls with its leaden weight in the endeavor to crush out of a career its divine destiny." ^{No and Yes, p. 34;}

Yet to the many who at some time or another in their lives and in some form or another have felt "the world of sense" place an apparently immovable weight on their shoulders, even these words are words of comfort. They bring comfort because the author of them speaks from her own experience and has proved divine destiny superior to that heavy weight. She has also left a clear statement of how we may prove the same, as we understand our divine destiny.

There's an old story about a motorist who enquires the way and is told, "You can't get there from here." Faced with a tangle of one-way and no-entry streets in a strange city, we may have felt like that ourselves. Yet there has always been a way through, even if we've had to start afresh from the city approaches.

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