Wednesday evening meetings at a Church of Christ, Scientist, are always special occasions. There was one Wednesday night, however, when the meeting was so helpful to me that an idea from the readings has stayed with me for years.
The First Reader, who conducts the service, had just begun reading from the Bible. When I heard this passage from Job, "Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? . . . when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?"Job 38:4, 7. it was as if someone were speaking directly to me. The words were being read for all in attendance, but they seemed to be a message for me alone.
As I pondered these questions (and I recall nothing more of the readings that night), the answer came, "I was there." What a tremendous message that was! "I was there." What that meant to me was that as a spiritual idea of the one divine Mind, God, I had never been separated from the source of all true consciousness. I couldn't have been anywhere but with God. And I was and am still there—just as we all are. Nothing can ever take us away from our place in eternal Love. No material birth or death, no material growth, no claim of physical being, could possibly do so.
