Stress of Night Driving and Loneliness Healed

I would like to express my gratitude for light. Living in Northern New Hampshire, this time of year seems to be drastically lacking in the light department getting dark around 4:15. In December when my husband passed on several years back, I was quite dreading this time of year. I just couldn’t imagine how lonely and dark Winters would be, but this I identified immediately as incorrect thinking and I set about to correct it. Man made in God’s image cannot be lacking any good thing and least of all light. After all, what is light but understanding. Some of the definitions of light in Webster’s 1828 dictionary are joy, felicity, comfort, prosperity, happiness. I knew that it was crucial to see for myself as well as for mankind that there can be no darkened sense, no depression, no lack of the light that is God. Darkness has no power, and no matter where we are at any time of day we can be filled with the light of God.

This light-heartedness if you will, has extended to handling night driving which was also seemingly bothersome to me. I live in a very rural area where there are very few street lights anywhere. But even just this evening I had to venture out on an errand I hadn’t planned on after dark. This took me on many roads where there were no lights or even houses. Well it might as well have been noon day for the joy I felt in my heart, and how I enjoyed the ride. First I found things to be grateful for, that I had a full tank of gas, that I was confident of the route that I was taking, but most importantly that I knew that the light that was God was with me all the way directing my path and giving me joy.

Words cannot begin to say just how extremely grateful I am to Mary Baker Eddy for her discovery of Christian Science, to Christ Jesus for lighting the path for all of us, and for God the great light that shineth on us all.