Learning to be Patient While Driving

When I first came to this church, I was a pretty aggressive driver. I had spent years driving a lot of highway miles back and forth to get my children every other week, and I always had a feeling that I was constantly on the verge of being too late, and woe be to anyone who slowed me down. In general during this time I felt a lot of stress, especially while driving, and I see now it was because I didn’t want to let my children or anyone else down.

Then I came to Plainfield and started working with my practitioner, and slowly began to see that it is God who directs me and everyone else while driving and always. I also began to notice during those moments I felt especially behind, that I would come across a deer or a fox or some animal, and it became clear that if I was a minute sooner or a minute later I would have missed seeing this moment of God’s goodness. I know it was God showing me that I was right where I needed to be at the right time, and it was only an illusion that I was late.

I feel the following quote from the article Moral Idiocy by anonymous reveals what was initially going on and what I needed to learn to handle with Christian Science: “In the world today, and in our own affairs, we must remember it is not so much the issue involved; it is the disruption that animal magnetism is striving for. Its whole game is to separate at-one-ment… To do this it uses moral idiocy, directing it specifically towards the belief of human integrity and duty. Consequently, we never rise into the pure Christ-consciousness of at-one-ment, and demonstrate it completely right where we are.”

I am so grateful for all I have learned here which has healed me of this constant stress and worry, and aggressive driving, and fear of disappointing people, so that I can more fully be the man that God made me to be. I am very thankful for the pure Christian Science as given at this church, and regular practitioner support, which have helped me get rid of so much of that old wrong thinking that I came here with.