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.