Article January 8, 2001 Issue

Pack 'n pray

Travelers' aid of a slightly different kind.

By Jonathon Moore

It was a rat. It was a large one. And it was sitting in the kitchen by the fridge. My wife was upset. And we were packing our bags to leave town in the morning and leave our young daughter at home with a sitter.

My first thought was to get an exterminator, but that was a problem because we were going away so soon. When I approached the rat, it hid in a cabinet. This only increased our anxiety level.

As I lay in bed attempting to go to sleep, I thought of a commentary on the serpent in the garden of Eden, in Science and Health: "Whence comes a talking, lying serpent to tempt the children of divine Love?" (p. 529). The author, Mary Baker Eddy, says that we "should rejoice that evil, by whatever figure presented, contradicts itself and has neither origin nor support in Truth and good" (ibid.). While we were dealing with a rat and not a snake, the idea that rodent infestation was not an evil that had God's support, comforted me. As I fell asleep, I resolved to let God's power bring harmony to the situation, knowing that God doesn't allow trouble to intrude on His children.

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