IT'S THE INTERNET, PERHAPS. Or maybe it's the concept of "global village" that's helped us embrace the world more closely. We're in step with the universe, or so it seems.
At a time when it's easy for us all to feel more connected, there are myriad issues for someone genuinely devoted to good—seeing good, doing good, being good—to pray about. But as our lives become more and more active, sometimes its busyness that we're about, rather than our Father's business. How can we be sure that our individual activities move at the impulse of a divine directive, rather than our own? How can we be sure we're in sync with God's plan for us?
One of Mary Baker Eddy's instructions about prayer is useful in keeping ourselves on track: "... enter into the closet," she wrote, "and shut the door." Science and Health, p. 15. That last part—shutting the door—I've found to be requisite. Although I haven't always understood its importance.
