This counselor-in-training should have been looking forward to the adventures of white-water rafting during a high-water year. Instead, she felt stuck in a fog of fear. But as she turned to the Bible and Science and Health, she found answers that helped both her and her rafting buddies.
At that moment, just before the election, what was ailing me most was the notion that I was living in a post-Truth world—a world where the God I had come to know as infinitely good couldn’t be trusted, a world where I couldn’t trust others, a world that seemed to be drowning in a sea of mistrust and fear.
I understood that I could be confident that the spiritual ideas I’d been cherishing in prayer were real and true because they were the Word of God, the divine Science (or practical knowledge) of God and His spiritual creation.
A day kayaking on the Arkansas River sounded like the perfect adventure to this teen . . . until she began to feel intimidated by fearful thoughts about everything that could go wrong. That’s when a spiritual insight helped her move from fear to confidence.
I quickly realized that I had been unconsciously “influenced erroneously” by nothing more than a random, erroneous thought of disease, and at that very moment the threat lost all its power to scare me.
When we view life from a spiritual perspective, we will no longer feel compelled to ruminate over painful or wistful memories, nor let them define or limit us. Instead, we will rejoice in and embrace the wondrous ways in which God leads us forward.