I once totaled my car while turning left at a large intersection. A driver I’d observed slowing to a stop at the impending red light suddenly decided to gun it just as the light turned from yellow to red. We hit with force, as we were both accelerating.

I’m happy to say the other driver and I walked away from that incident. Our cars were crushed, but we were protected by air bags. I was unhurt, aside from a stiff neck and a few bruises on my face.

A couple of days later I was struck by the thought that there had never been a moment when God was not present. In the Christian Science textbook Mary Baker Eddy writes, “As a drop of water is one with the ocean, a ray of light one with the sun, even so God and man, Father and son, are one in being” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 361). So, I could not be separated from God, from divine Love and Life, for an instant. Right there, even at the moment of impact, God was with me.