The 'everywhere' fact

INGRID PESCHKE, STAFF EDITOR

Recently, our family spent an evening at our favorite beach an hour's drive from our home. When it came time to leave, our eight-year-old daughter's eyeglasses were nowhere to be found. There were only a few folks left on the beach—including some girls who used the light from their cellphones to help us search. But no glasses turned up. As we were about to give up, I thought, "How could such a happy evening end like this? Since God truly is everywhere, I know He has an answer."

At that moment, a man suddenly approached us in the darkness. Although he didn't have a flashlight, he offered to look for the glasses the following morning on his regular pre-dawn beach walk. Imagine our meeting not only a local, but a guy who was probably one of the first few to walk the beach in the morning.

The next day, I looked up his phone number on the Internet and gave him a call. "I'm so glad you called me," he said. "I asked the Lord to help me find those glasses morning." He said that after five times of going up and down the beach, he'd been about to give up, but that something told him to turn around one last time. As he did so, he saw a glint of sunlight like a flash in the sand. "And there," he said," almost buried, I saw the eyeglasses!" I think he was as I was by experience.

Mary Baker Eddy wrote, "Science defines omnipresence as universality, that which precludes the presence of evil" (Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896, pp. 102–103). To me, this small experience was a practical example of that fact. When we turn to God, His law of harmony proves itself immediate and universally applicable.

This week's issue reinforces the fact that there's nothing outside God's goodness, because we live and move in His universe. Writers Fujiko Signs, Katja Bressette, and Jean-Pierre Laclau bring their international experience to the topic. And as Richard Nenneman points out in the opening article, "Seeing and acknowledging the universality of truth makes it easier for us to also appreciate truth's activity in others, and even in other belief systems." Enjoy your read!

WHAT I SAY UNTO YOU I SAY UNTO ALL, WATCH.—JESUS

The Christian Science Sentinel was founded in 1898 by Mary Baker Eddy, and its mission remains the same: "to hold guard over Truth, Life, and Love." The Sentinel continues to report on the unlimited ways that the healing power and presence of the Christ activates, uplifts, and transforms the lives of everyday people around the world.

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