Follow the Road or Walk on Water?

This picture is an inspirational reminder to me. It appears that one's only option is to turn right and follow the road. But there are other options. You could go straight ahead, walk across the water (or get into a boat), and explore that land in the distance. You could spread you arms (or fire up your jet-backpack) and soar into the sky. You could even realize that you aren't constrained at all by a physical form and just think yourself to another locale.

"Hold on there!" you say, "What have you been smoking?" Actually, I've been reading my Bible. At least two of those options were preformed by Jesus - walking on the water and being instantly somewhere else. And the Bible tells us that Elijah was taken up into the sky in a chariot of fire!

But these Bible events suggest more to me then just alternative forms of transportation.

Sometimes the road of life seems to be turning in a direction we don't want to go and there don't appear to be any options. We may feel that we are hopelessly locked into some path or situation that only leads to an undesirable ending. Age, finances, past deeds, ancestry, gender, health, education, personal skills, or any number of mortal circumstances form our road or wall it in. Ultimately, all human-life roads lead to death. How do we get off these roads? Is there a way to a better destination?

In her book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy shows us how to get off the roadway of mortal existence. She writes: "Mortals must emerge from this notion of material life as all-in-all. They must peck open their shells with Christian Science, and look outward and upward." Eddy also gives us a starting point for this new direction of travel: "The starting-point of divine science is that God, Spirit, is All-in-all, and that there is no other might nor Mind,-- that God is Love, and therefore He is divine Principle."

I can't describe this whole new way in a single blog entry - you can read all about it in Eddy's book. The many healings I've experienced prove to me that this way exists. So, when that big arrow sign looms ahead on my road of life and the destination being pointed to seems inconsistent with God's goodness and love for man, I don't just follow the road. I let the Christ and Christian Science show me the way. You can too!