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Praying when there’s conflict
Between each bit of news about war, is there room to think? To pray? It’s always important to keep up to date on the news, yet we also need to take time to step back from the jarring details. I’ve found that, in order to rise above the cycles of dismal reports of doom that may run through my head, I need to be still and pray. Prayer isn’t something to hide behind; prayer lifts my thought beyond what I see physically and brings to light the goodness and allness of God.
So lately, I’ve carved out time to consider the simple fact that God is good and, as Jesus proved in his life and healings, God is always completely good. As explained in Mary Baker Eddy’s textbook on the Christ-healing practiced by Jesus, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “In the Saxon and twenty other tongues good is the term for God. The Scriptures declare all that He made to be good, like Himself,—good in Principle and in idea. Therefore the spiritual universe is good, and reflects God as He is” (p. 286).
As I study more about the nature of God, I am emboldened to learn how God’s spiritual universe is the one and only universe. In the final analysis, since we live in a universe of God, we live in a universe of good, in which we, too, are spiritual and good, despite how things may appear. In contrast with today’s cacophony of discouragement and violence, this is such heartening news.
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