Article May 31, 1999 Issue

"JUDGE NOT..."

Unexpected visitor in the parking lot

Audrey Muller

One evening it was necessary for me to visit our local shopping center just at closing time. After parking the car, I noticed that I had pulled up alongside a big, very ornate motorcycle. I thought no more about it until I returned to my car and found that my vehicle and the motorbike were the only ones left in the car park. I felt alarmed. There had been several distressing incidents in that particular parking area. Women had been attacked, and one had been abducted with horrific results.

Remembering this, I began hurriedly stowing my groceries in my car. As I did, I thought of God's ever-presence and this line from one of my favorite hymns: "My presence still shall go with thee / And I will give thee peace" (Christian Science Hymnal, No. 136). I also recalled this statement from the Christian Science textbook: "Spirit is symbolized by strength, presence, and power, and also by holy thoughts, winged with Love" (Science and Health, p. 512).

At that moment a very dirty, unshaven man returned to his motorcycle. He climbed on board and circled me and my car before driving off. As I was about to close the trunk of the car, the bike pulled up right beside me.

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