From the Editors April 14, 2014 Issue

(Traffic) signs following...

The Editors

During street construction around Boston this past year, traffic signs appeared all over the city that read: “Please expect delays” in blinking lights.

“Please” expect delays? Of course this is the highway department’s effort to slip a bit of civility into the delivery of some unwelcome news to drivers. But the message has some interesting implications—blinking lights, you might say—when we draw parallels to our metaphysical commitment to healing.

It’s here that we can leap-frog past road traffic to mental “traffic”—the worldly suggestions of illness, relationship challenges, financial worries, etc.—that would keep us from expressing our innate health and harmony. Expressing what comes from our infinite source—God, good.

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