Article May 4, 2020 Issue

Certainty in uncertain times

Susan Booth Mack Snipes

First appeared as a Web Original on March 26, 2020

I’ve heard it said that the one thing you can count on is that you can’t count on anything. The uncertainties of human existence would tend to support such a sentiment. But are chaos and variableness really the principles behind existence, or is there another, more reliable Principle that we can base our lives on?

I grew up singing a hymn from the Christian Science Hymnal that has pointed my thought to the divine Principle that is God. The hymn begins,

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