It was late at night and I found myself driving on a strange road with no street lights or signs. As I drove into dark, unfamiliar countryside, I knew I was lost. I pulled over and programmed an address into my car’s GPS navigational device. A comforting, steady voice told me, turn by turn, what to do. In a short time, the device directed me to my destination even though I had no idea of where I was.
At the risk of stretching the much-used analogy, it has occurred to me over the years that, in a profound context, divine Love, God, operates much like a GPS—correcting and guiding without recrimination. Sometimes we may feel too busy to stop and listen for God’s guidance or feel too sure of our own human plans. Sometimes we may even lose sight of where we are going. But Love, God, is always present, always guiding, and we can experience this when our thought seeks this divine direction. Divine Love also illumines the destination, which inevitably involves spiritual growth.
So how do we get back on track and engage with this divine guidance? Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “Whatever holds human thought in line with unselfed love, receives directly the divine power” (p. 192). In this statement Mrs. Eddy aligns love with divine power. When we prayerfully turn our thought from “self” to God, we find harmony in our lives. This is not simply because of our own human goodness or strict discipline of thought, but because our thought naturally aligns with the Principle of being, the power of divine Love, God, which governs the universe.
