Article January 27, 2014 Issue

Driving with care

Katherine Kerr

The first day of winter break was also the first snow of the season. I woke up to see the ground covered in white. Anyone knows that this is a most exciting way to wake up!

I had a list of errands I needed to run, and as I got ready, I saw a text from my mom reminding me to drive carefully. Without thinking much of it, I walked out to the car. As I scraped the snow off the windows, I realized that this was going to be my first time driving alone in snow.

The snow wasn't too deep, though, so I felt OK about setting out. As I started, driving safely wasn't a problem. But then as I made my first turn from the neighborhood to the main road, I felt my back tires sliding on the pavement. It was nothing big, but I began driving more slowly. Then, as I came up around the first roundabout, I found that I couldn’t stop. I had my brakes on but was still sliding at the same speed I had been driving. Without thinking twice, I pulled the handbrake and was able to regain control. I stopped before entering the roundabout and collected my thoughts, feeling grateful that I had been open to that angel message to pull the handbrake. In her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy describes angels as "God's thoughts passing to man; spiritual intuitions, pure and perfect; ..." (p. 581)—and I was thankful that I'd been led by this spiritual intuition to respond appropriately.