As God’s children, we all have the daily opportunity to step forward with a fuller trust that our divine Father-Mother, the source of all wisdom, directs and enables each of us to hear and follow His guidance, without constraint. As Isaiah said, “Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left” (Isaiah 30:21). And Mary Baker Eddy states in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “The discoverer of Christian Science finds the path less difficult when she has the high goal always before her thoughts, than when she counts her footsteps in endeavoring to reach it” (p. 426). 

What that says to me: Don’t limit your solutions.

Some years ago, while employed as a landscape architect specializing in revegetation, I was asked to find a design solution involving a two-hundred-acre wind-swept site in the desert, where topsoil and all vegetation had been removed during highway construction. Sand and dust were obscuring visibility for highway travelers, resulting in numerous accidents. Also, the blowing sand from this site was adversely affecting the nearby airport’s operations. I felt overwhelmed by the assignment of revegetating the area with its extreme desert temperatures, high wind speeds, little-to-no yearly rainfall, and lack of viable options for temporary irrigation. Numerous past efforts to revegetate the site had failed.

Even with many years in planning and listening for design solutions, I now felt an extreme sense of pressure and anxiety. 

The organization I worked for was under pressure from the state to find a solution quickly in order to save lives and utilize funding that had been granted in legislation to solve the issue. Even with many years in planning and listening for design solutions, I now felt an extreme sense of pressure and anxiety. The issues before me were deeper than I had ever faced before, and there seemed to be inadequate time to design a solution and secure construction bids.

I began to pray to better understand that the infinite Father-Mother God is constantly expressing all the fullness of divine beauty, permanence, and fulfillment for a timely purpose. Mrs. Eddy describes this expression: “Allness is the measure of the infinite, and nothing less can express God” (Science and Health, p. 336). 

As I continued to pray with assurance and trust that all right ideas are transparent in God, my feelings of anxiety and pressure lessened and finally dissolved. Words from the Christian Science Hymnal provided comfort: 

One day I visited the barren site with a survey crew. The site appeared devoid of life. I felt a spiritual intuition to lie flat on the ground. I recall praying something like, “Father, You are Life, and right here You are showing me Life abundant, Your infinite ideas, which cannot be obscured or absent.” Near me I noticed a large ant mound, and on the wind-protected side of the mound was the smallest little seedling. Then I saw more mounds and more little seedlings. At that moment the thought came, “Why not mimic these ant mounds on a bigger scale and form large irregular mounds, in addition to adding wind fencing near them?” 

I felt a spiritual intuition to lie flat on the ground.

So over three months’ time, in conjunction with a soil scientist and a biologist, we developed this new approach. We also found a natural, plant-derived, glue-like product that we sprayed over the seeds and mulch we applied to keep them from blowing away. 

The result was the immediate elimination of blowing dust or sand from this site, followed by a successful plant establishment within one growing season. The project solved the environmental problems and saved many lives, creating a safer atmosphere for all. Along with that, the site now provides habitat for endangered species as well as increased safety at the airport. 

Learning to listen humbly to infinite Mind and its ever-available ideas enables us to bless our community and the wider world. We all, by divine right, have the humility and strength to respond to—and utilize—the spiritual ideas given to us by God. These lead to healing solutions, unconfined by human calculations. God’s direction provides solutions without limit that bless mankind.