Oh, no! There it went—my friend’s brand-new cellphone—over the side of her kayak and into the lake. The water was only about five feet deep, but the lake floor was too soft to support the weight of a person, so we four friends in four kayaks gently searched the ground beneath us with our paddles. After 15 minutes someone voiced the concern of whether the phone would even work. The owner of the cellphone decided to consider it lost, and she drifted away from the spot.
But I wasn’t ready to paddle away, leaving a useful and expensive tool in the water. I felt certain that the ever-present goodness of God was there. Psalm 139 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. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me” (verses 7–10).
Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered Christian Science, writes: “No evidence before the material senses can close my eyes to the scientific proof that God, good, is supreme” (Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896, p. 277). This was how I felt that day on the lake—a conviction of the presence of good right where we were.
