When I interviewed a gracious, joyful man named Harold Bradley, Jr., a decade ago, he had a lifetime of stories to share. In the United States, he had been a pro footballer in the years in which Blacks broke the “color line practices,” which had kept them out of the sport at that level. In the late Bradley’s adopted homeland of Italy, he’s known for a versatile career in the arts: sketching and painting, art curating, founding a pioneering folk/jazz cafe, stage and movie acting, a singing career lasting into his nineties.
What struck me was his master plan: follow where the divine Mind, God, leads. He credited his experience of touching so many lives to understanding the truths taught in Christian Science (see “A spiritually guided Renaissance man” in this issue, page 23).
These Bible-based truths reveal God’s reality as divine Spirit and each of us as God’s spiritual expression. As Bradley’s life illustrates, that’s not just an abstract, spiritual ideal. It translates to something God-given for each of us, which makes us feel exactly who we’re meant to be. God is always calling us to the recognition and realization of that divine purpose and identity, even if the road we take in getting there can sometimes seem meandering.
