UPFRONT May 1, 2006 Issue

Trading in our plans for God's plans

KIM SHIPPEY, SENIOR WRITER

To be under pressure appears to be so common as almost to be fashionable—a badge of normality, confirmation that you're one of the crowd. It was a topic the Sentinel couldn't avoid, yet one that editors and writers were determined not to get swept up in.

From the first words of this Upfront to the last words of From the Editors, we have tried to focus on solutions not snarls, and show how the "restful Mind"—a helpful term for God, used in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy—can ease tension and bring order to our lives.

Often it helps to just sit for a moment, as the Bible tells us King David did in the presence of the prophet Nathan (see II Sam. 7:18). In his book Leap Over a Wall, Eugene Peterson suggests this might have been the single most critical act of David's extraordinary career—the action that put him "out of action." "By sitting down," writes Peterson, "David renounced royal initiative, abdicated kingly authority, got himself out of the driver's seat, and deliberately and reverently placed himself before God his king ... trading in his plans for God's plans."

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