I enjoy communing with God during walks. I cherish this time to listen for God’s thoughts and to think more clearly about God, as well as to challenge any negative thoughts I might have.
As I often do, one morning on a walk I listened to the audio version of the week’s Bible Lesson from the Christian Science Quarterly, which was on “Love.” I remembered a Christian Science Daily Lift I had watched online that showed that you can purify muddy water by adding lots of clean, clear water until only the clear water remains. This relates to a line from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy that was in the Lesson, where ungodlike thoughts, or “error,” could be thought of as similar to mud: “The way to extract error from mortal mind is to pour in truth through flood-tides of Love” (p. 201).
At that time, I had been mentally rehearsing a problem, leading to great frustration. Suddenly, I noticed a fog that had slowly moved up the hill and was now moving rapidly toward me. In that moment I likened the fog to “the depth, breadth, height, might, majesty, and glory of infinite Love” that our Leader says “fill all space” (Science and Health, p. 520).
That fog moved effortlessly past boulders and enormous trees, over the landscape, over the hills, and right over and around me. In that moment I felt an overwhelming impetus to drop my rehearsal of error and to let Love purify and lead me. To be cleansed!
Even though fog often represents the negative concept of an obscured view, in that moment it symbolized to me the strength and power of God effortlessly being everywhere. I could see that the “glory of infinite Love fill[ing] all space” is always in action. Observing the fog filling all the space around me inspired me to drop the frustrations and simply turn to God—“Purify me, Father-Mother. I am Yours. I can hear and know only Your voice of goodness.”
This all happened in seconds. But it was such a tangible illustration of God’s pure love for His child . . . and I was tremendously grateful. The heavy mental burden lifted—and the day went forward filled with a joy-inspired sense of good.
