About Eight Years Ago, one of my sons offered me an airplane ticket to accompany his two young children to Porto Alegre. I expected the return trip to be harmonious, remembering what the Psalmist says: "Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there" (Ps. 139:7, 8).
When we were at our cruising altitude and the in-flight service had already begun, the captain announced that we were returning to the airport because of a mechanical failure in one of the engines. The passengers began to panic. I had in my hands a copy of the Portuguese Edition of The Herald of Christian Science, and I was reading an article that contained a Bible passage that was quite appropriate for the situation. It said: "For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life . . . shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Rom. 8:38, 39). There was also a passage from Science and Health: "Hold perpetually this thought,—that it is the spiritual idea, the Holy Ghost and Christ, which enables you to demonstrate, with scientific certainty, the rule of healing, based upon its divine Principle, Love, underlying, overlying, and encompassing all true being" (p. 496).
". . . neither death,
nor life . . . shall
be able to separate
us from the love
of God . . ."
