Article June 12, 1995 Issue

Divine protection from environmental extremes

Marilyn K. Bland

We can expect to see a decreasing amount of destruction from "natural" hazards and environmental extremes as mankind more clearly understands that God's creation, man and the universe, can never be outside His control.

The key is translating man and our environment back into Spirit. Mary Baker Eddy speaks about this kind of translation in Science and Health where she writes: "The compounded minerals or aggregated substances composing the earth, the relations which constituent masses hold to each other, the magnitudes, distances, and revolutions of the celestial bodies, are of no real importance, when we remember that they all must give place to the spiritual fact by the translation of man and the universe back into Spirit. In proportion as this is done, man and the universe will be found harmonious and eternal" (p. 209).

On our family farm we had ample opportunity to discern life from a spiritual perspective. Instead of praying for it to rain (or not to rain), we began to understand that man, as God's full representation, includes every right idea. Often rains came as required. However, once during a drought, our soybean crop appeared doomed to failure.

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