Article October 9, 1989 Issue

Always at home

Home isn't here or there—it's within.

Ferol Austen

God embraces us wherever we are. This was something I began to learn several years ago when I was getting ready for my first trip abroad. Since it was also my first plane trip, the prospect was doubly exciting.

However, while my family and friends made elaborate plans for a proper send-off, little by little my excitement began to change into apprehension as the departure date drew near. I even had a nightmare in which I imagined myself swinging by a thread in blackness over the Atlantic Ocean with only the light of the moon glinting against the choppy waves below. Here I was, scared beyond belief, and I hadn't even begun my trip!

Not long before this I had become a student of Christian Science. I had been learning—and thought I did understand—that in a universe filled with God's love there was no reason to fear. I had been thinking about one of my favorite Bible passages: "All things work together for good to them that love God."^{Rom. 8:28.} I certainly did love God, so why was I so afraid?