Article March 26, 2012 Issue

We're here to help each other

Pamela Foulds Urell

One morning, the thought came, “Why don’t you make senate bean soup today and double the recipe?” What was particularly interesting to me about this were two things: I was living alone in a small cottage with a very tiny freezer and not enough room to save this amount of soup, plus I had never even eaten this kind of soup. A friend had sent me the recipe, recommending that I try it. To be instructed that morning to make this quantity of soup made me curious. I recognized it as an angel thought from God. In the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy described angels as “God’s thoughts passing to man; spiritual intuitions, pure and perfect; the inspiration of goodness, purity, and immortality, counteracting all evil, sensuality, and mortality” (p. 581). Knowing that many wonderful changes in my life had come to me this way, in the form of a question, made me pay extra attention. So I immediately went to the store to get the ingredients and I started cooking.

After the soup was on simmer, I decided to drive to the nearby Christian Science Reading Room for some prayer and study. When I got there, sitting outside on a park bench, was an older gentleman I didn’t really know, but had seen at church. It came to me to go and sit down beside him and strike up a conversation. He told me he hadn’t been feeling very well lately and it had been several days since he’d eaten anything. I thought, “Maybe this is why God told me to make the soup.” Then I asked him if I could bring him the soup that was cooking on my stove. This made him very happy because he loved beans and this was the one thing that really appealed to him to eat. We arranged a time later that day and I brought him lots of soup and some for his freezer.

This experience taught me some great lessons on how God works through His angel thoughts to help, direct, and guide us when we put Him first and follow our highest sense of doing His will moment by moment. I have found over the years that by listening to my specific angel thoughts from God and following my highest sense of their direction that this is virtually the way God operates in our lives. These angel thoughts are constantly speaking to us in a way that we can understand and perceive them. That is why that morning, I gladly jumped at the opportunity to make the soup, even though it didn’t make much sense to store so much soup in my tiny freezer. I knew there was an upcoming adventure unfolding! 