Article October 17, 2005 Issue

COMMITTED TO PRAYER FOR OUR NEIGHBOR

with contributions from HARRIET SCHUPP, TONY O. EKWE, DIANA BUTLER, JANE MEEK, LOUISE YOUNG, HUGH TOPLIS, DOROTHY LONDON RIVARD, BOBBE KERR

Weeks have passed since Hurricane Katrina struck. Since that time, amid fledgling relief efforts and economic struggles, Hurricane Rita impacted the Gulf Coast region. Even though reconstruction is under way, and other stories may lead the headlines, ongoing prayer for those in the area and beyond is still urgently needed. Here is a sampling of some of the prayers we've been hearing about.

I live in New Orleans, but am currently staying in various places with either family or friends until I can return to my home. My prayer is ever evolving but based on the absolute spiritual truth that "the realm of the real is Spirit" (Science and Health, p. 277). We truly live in Spirit, God. The disturbing pictures that the news continually presents to us do not compute in God's exquisite universe. And so we have a choice of what we will accept as our basis for understanding life and existence. Choosing the spiritual perspective—that which the one omnipotent God who is Love itself is knowing and seeing—we participate in that universe. This light of understanding, this Christly perspective, heals and blesses all.

In small and large ways, I have seen the order, harmony, safety, and love of God expressed in my own life and in those of many others in these past weeks. Holding to facts such as these and letting divine Mind lead us to see more, is the life work of "praying without ceasing" (see I Thess. 5:17), and this will restore and renew all that seems lost.

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