I used to feel tremendously inconvenienced when I lost or misplaced something. Having to stop in my tracks, pray, and take the requisite human footsteps to recover a lost object seemed a waste of time, keeping me from my mission of the day. As you might imagine, when I did lose or misplace something, I rarely had much success praying about it or finding it. I had trouble stilling my thought and shifting my focus to what I perceived as the new demand of the moment. At the time, I didn’t realize that keeping my thought aligned with God was the only demand of every moment.
Recently I became aware that whenever I misplaced something, I would tend to blame myself for the loss, believing I was not organized or mindful enough. In fact, I would label myself “absent-minded.” I started to look at that labeling through the lens of Christian Science. In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy defines God as “the great I AM; the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, and eternal; Principle; Mind; Soul; Spirit; Life; Truth; Love; all substance; intelligence” (p. 587).
I asked myself, If God is the only Mind, the only intelligence, and man is made in His image and likeness, could man ever be or act absent of Mind? No. Mind is always present. So, I affirmed that there is only one power, one authority in the universe, and that God reigns. I determined to agree with the Bible verse, “I am the Lord, there is none else” (Isaiah 45:5).
