A midwestern farmer, who had been a Bible student from his early Sunday school days, built a barn, and according to custom had a weathervane placed on the top of it. It was the same kind of vane all barns had in the community, with the exception that it bore the Scriptural quotation, "God is love." One morning a neighbor stopped for a chat, and looking over the new barn noted the inscription on the weathervane and asked his friend if he thought God was as changeable as the weather indicator. The farmer smilingly shook his head, saying, "No, it simply means 'God is love' whichever way the wind blows."
God never changes; God is always Love, God is always imparting His ideas to man. Great comfort has this truth for all of us today when to material sense the whole mode of living is changing to meet the demands necessary for the maintenance of a democratic way of life. It causes us to give pause in gratitude, knowing that through every changing human experience God remains steadfast, available to us wherever we seek Him in quiet, earnest prayer; knowing, too, that His bountiful supply of spiritual ideas is impartially ours for the seeking, and is sufficient to carry us through every situation as it develops.
Our growing understanding of God's steadfastness enables us to express this quality of God in meeting each experience with spiritual confidence and poise. Encouragingly for us our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, affirms the immutability of divine reality on page 306 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," where she says, "Undisturbed amid the jarring testimony of the material senses, Science, still enthroned, is unfolding to mortals the immutable, harmonious, divine Principle,—is unfolding Life and the universe, ever present and eternal."
