Article February 6, 2012 Issue

Your spiritual safety net

By Colleen Douglass

Recently, high winds swept down canyons, snapping branches and toppling trees. Three hundred and forty thousand homes were without power in California. While the fiercest part of the windstorm wasn’t in my area, thinking about friends, family, and other residents in its midst prompted me to pray. It also reminded me of times when I’d been in equally charged environs. 

Besides bad weather conditions, I’ve rocked and rolled near the epicenter of more than one earthquake and have faced financial uncertainty. And yet, at these times, I’ve been able to feel a sense of security despite all that was swirling around me. I found mental freedom from fear through what I’d learned from studying the Bible and Mary Baker Eddy’s writings. Like clockwork, after I regained my sense of peace, the circumstances harmonized, the healing occurred, or I found the path I needed to take.

So, how can one maintain an assurance of safety and well-being while in the eye of a storm, no matter what form that storm takes? There are a few important things I’ve learned. First, neither matter nor people offer any kind of security, so it’s pointless to put one’s trust in these. One may find a material shelter from the elements or be helped along by another person, but these are instruments, not sources, of safety. Rather, throughout the Bible, we read about many people whose challenges have required that they trust a much more reliable source. 

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