Editorial March 23, 1981 Issue

Learning to live with "miracles"

BEULAH M. ROEGGE

Let's consider an everyday kind of event. A woman was leaving the house one morning without a necklace she'd planned to wear but couldn't find. It didn't seem worth praying about. If she didn't find the necklace then, she'd find it later. The day before had been different. She was to give a talk and was almost frantic when she couldn't find the car keys. There wasn't time to search. She prayed, and after thinking through what Mrs. Eddy gives in Science and Health (p. 468) as "the scientific statement of being" and yielding to its spiritual truths, she began dumping out a wastebasket and "miraculously" found her keys in that unlikely spot.

Now, a day later, when starting out the door without the necklace, she remembered the keys and felt a little guilty. It was disorderly to be always losing things. And wasn't it trivial, even a little vain, to pray about the necklace—why bother God about such little things?

But what about the proverb, "In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths"?^{Prov. 3:6.} "Not wanting to bother God" she recognized as an attitude that doesn't belong to the twentieth century and has none of the light of "the scientific statement of being," with its majestic opening: "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all." The attitude that would skip the smallest indication of order as being beneath God's caring would show ignorance of that Mind, that constant divine Principle, ever in operation bringing order and healing to human situations. Such an attitude doesn't at all square with Paul's enlightened explanation of God to the Athenians: "In him we live, and move, and have our being."^{Acts 17:28.}

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