I just love the many metaphors in the Bible and in the writings of Mary Baker Eddy about our relation to God. For example, there’s a metaphor of God as a shepherd, rejoicing after finding his lost lamb (see Matthew 18:12–14) and a simile of God being like the sun and man being like a ray of light that goes out from—expresses—the sun (see Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 361).
One night, after a role-playing game with my family and friends, I thought of a new metaphor for God’s love. As part of the game, we imagined we were traveling in a spaceship between planets, and so I thought of God’s love like a tractor beam. In science fiction, this is a device that attracts an object from a distance and can hold on to it. At first, I was comforted at the thought of God’s love attracting and holding me. But then I considered, from my study of Christian Science, that we’re not actually at a distance from divine Love. We are always one with God, as Christ Jesus taught.
I was comforted at the thought of God’s love attracting and holding me.
