Editorial March 12, 1979 Issue

Nothing outside God's control

Geoffrey J. Barratt

Some people thoroughly enjoy driving a well-designed, stable car along a finely engineered highway; they have a nice feeling of control. Contrasting with this is the uneasiness if we hit a patch of ice and feel the car break away, momentarily out of control.

It's reassuring to remember in any kind of slippery situation that all that genuinely exists, all that is real, is under the perfect control of God. Nothing is outside that control. And we can demonstrate divine control whenever we need to by affirming the truth of being and by bringing our living under the direction of Deity. "Mind's control over the universe, including man," Mary Baker Eddy tells us, "is no longer an open question, but is demonstrable Science." Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 171;

Demonstrating Mind's control more consistently involves turning away from matter and to Mind as regularly as we can. It involves making a mental U-turn, reversing any drift toward matter and facing Spirit and its allness. And, goodness knows, there is tremendous need and opportunity in offices, homes, and in society at large, for more evidence of the control of immortal intelligence.

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