IT'S BUSY, THIS 21ST CENTURY. It's a technologist's dream. We've got it all—talk radio, nonstop TV news, Facebook, and Twitter. All the information and communication exchange you want—and more.
Sure, it's good to be wired—to know that we have virtual families and friends at the tap of a TV remote or a laptop key. We can chat and chat. Or, be glued to the 24-hour news channels. But are we also losing something? Is there time to invite God to join our "spiritual Facebook"? Time for that closeness with Him that informs us He's the very essence of who we are—that we're spiritual, made in the likeness of Spirit or Soul?
Speaking of silent communion with God, Mary Baker Eddy gave us this guidance: "In order to pray aright, we must enter into the closet and shut the door. We must close the lips and silence the material senses. In the quiet sanctuary of earnest longings, we must deny sin and plead God's allness." Later, in the next paragraph, she referred to receiving that wonderful divine communication that flows from God to each of us as His idea, "Christians rejoice in secret beauty and bounty, hidden from the world, but known to God" (Science and Health, p. 15).
