While living in a small, rural community in the American Midwest, I discovered that it is vital to move beyond one's familiar orbit. I felt instinctively that there must be an avenue through which I could more fully implement Christ Jesus' teachings about universal love—teachings I was learning more of daily through the Bible Lessons outlined in the Christian Science Quarterly.
I felt the spiritual, ongoing momentum within these spiritual truths and relied on them to enlarge my understanding that dynamic, universal Love was permeating this environment, correcting it, regenerating it, healing it.
The term wings, figuratively used to represent divine presence, had been appearing in Bible references and had helped me develop a precious awareness of God's constant, ever-present protection and tender, watchful love. I needed this spiritual impetus to see how to erase the misconception that human environment controls and limits life. We'd just moved from a large metropolitan city where there was an abundance of cultural opportunities. I found myself longing for the rich enjoyment I'd found in city living. I was forced to come to grips with dependency on material resources and find spirtual satisfaction and completeness where they actually are—in God.
