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Spirituality supports safety in the skies—a healing response to fear
Originally appeared on spirituality.com
It was Monday, November 12, 2001, in North America. In Brisbane, Australia, where I live, it was 4 a.m. on Tuesday, November 13. At about that time my wife, Beverly, was scheduled to arrive at the West Coast of the United States on an overseas flight from Australia. We had agreed that she would phone me on her arrival. After a short stopover she was to board a plane for the ongoing flight to the East Coast.
On the previous evening I had been at our home praying about peace and safety, with her travel very much in my thoughts. As a basis for my prayers I’d found comfort by what I read in the Bible and Mary Baker Eddy’s writings. For example, I was encouraged by Christ Jesus’ promise: “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you …. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”
Also, I was impressed by Mrs. Eddy’s inspiring example as a peacemaker. At one time she wrote, “Each day I pray: ‘God bless my enemies; make them Thy friends; give them to know the joy and the peace of love’” (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 220).
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David lives with his wife, Beverly, in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
