Early in my teaching career, I decided to take some time off from teaching in order to pursue an MBA degree full time. I enrolled in an excellent program in a different state that would require an 100-mile round trip by car to attend classes that met in the late afternoon until night.
For several years before this, whenever I drove long distances, I had made it a practice to pray for everyone on the road to have a safe trip. I continued that practice during my long commutes.
One day, when a class ended at 9:30 at night, I started my drive home and stopped for a red light at the end of campus. When the light changed, I started to drive, but I clearly heard: “Wait!” This word was not a sound, but a thought. It was a perfect example of what Mary Baker Eddy writes about in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: “The effects of Christian Science are not so much seen as felt. It is the ‘still, small voice’ of Truth uttering itself” (p. 323).
