One evening I was driving home from work and got pulled over for speeding. While I was waiting for the police officer to give me a ticket, I prayed.
I had recently moved to Atlanta, where the traffic is notorious. Each night I felt anxious about my commute. I was aware of the anxiety while driving, but wasn’t making much headway in healing it. To make matters worse, my husband and I were having difficulty finding a home to purchase. In an effort to resolve this, I had been praying about the concept of home for months and had discerned that owning and maintaining a home has a lot to do with valuing attention, safety, and orderliness.
As I was waiting in my car, I realized that my sense of home expands into everything I do. And I am not outside of God’s perfect kingdom just because my new city has heavy traffic. As Mary Baker Eddy clearly states in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, though not the boundary, of the affections” (p. 58). In other words, I have the ability to express qualities of home wherever I am, including right there in the car.
