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A few summers ago my husband...

From the May 1998 issue of The Christian Science Journal


A few summers ago my husband and I went on a guide-assisted backpacking trip in Alaska. In preparation for this trip I gave specific thought to preparing myself spiritually, as I wanted to be certain I had a "divine adventure," not just a good time "away from it all."

I realized that nothing could
take my joy away. I was free from
any pain or restricted movement.

After a few days into the trip and nonstop rain, I turned to the ideas I had been reading in the Bible Lesson as outlined in the Christian Science Quarterly. I prayed especially with a few lines from Science and Health: "Mind, supreme over all its formations and governing them all, is the central sun of its own systems of ideas, the life and light of all its own vast creation; and man is tributary to divine Mind" (p. 209). I reasoned that the sun does not determine the warmth and clearness of my day; God does. My thought was brightened and uplifted as I realized God is the center and source of my being. Not long after this I realized that the low, heavy clouds had lifted. That day, and for the remainder of the trip, we did not experience any heavy weather.

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