Often, when I am praying about any situation, I will stop for a moment and ask myself, "What's going on right now? What fills all space right now?" This causes me to dwell on God, divine Love, as all-inclusive, all-embracing, and ever present, and lessens any sense of a problem. I am so grateful that Mary Baker Eddy writes, in Science and Health, "Divine Science, the Word of God, saith to the darkness upon the face of error, 'God is All-in-all,' and the light of ever-present Love illumines the universe" (p. 503). To realize that Love is ever present now, causes us to view every situation—past, present, or future—in the light of Love as an eternal fact, and therefore as the only reality of what was, as well as what might be. A present fact, if it is divine, must of necessity be an eternal fact.
I had a lovely healing through sticking to Love as a present fact. A few years ago, I was on a wonderful trip to Turkey to visit the sites of the seven churches in the book of Revelation. Part of the tour was to travel by boat from Turkey to the Isle of Patmos, as the Apostle John, the author of Revelation, had done when he was exiled. It was quite a rough crossing, and I was sick. Once we were on land, everything was fine, but that night, before we were due to sail back to Turkey, I began to feel very concerned about the return journey. I spent most of the night in prayer. The thought that particularly came to me was the very one with which I began this testimony, What's true now? What's filling all space now? Only good from God. Then, that's what was really going on, and that's what will be going on right where fear tells me something bad might happen.
I boarded the boat, planted myself on deck firmly gripping the rail, and thought about something from the First Epistle of John in the Bible: "Beloved, now are we the sons of God" (3:2). I fixed my gaze on this thought and stuck to it during the entire four-hour sail back to Turkey. The sea was rougher than the day before, but I was fine. I even enjoyed riding the waves from my position by the rail.
