“There Is No Out There!”

By Kit Kurtz

A few weeks ago, in the middle of praying to consistently see God’s presence, but also to feel closer to God, I felt an angel thought (a message from God) flood my thinking, “There is no out there!” I understood immediately that I was never outside God’s consciousness trying to get back in. There is not a place outside what God knows. I was not ‘out there,” metaphorically working and praying and hoping to find just the right inspiration to feel my closeness to God. I, and all God’s children, are always on the inside, are always right with Mother Father God.
I was so grateful and am so very grateful for this gift of Christian Science that teaches us the practical fact that God is all there is and that God is very very good. When we look, we see God’s presence operating everywhere in our life

A couple of days before we were to leave on a big trip I was working at our reading room. I joyfully applied the concept that there is “no out there” for our church, our community, and all the world.

I almost immediately saw this fact of God’s loving presence in action. I left the reading room at 2:15, just in time to be home when my son arrived home from his day program. But, as I pulled out from the parking lot my car started to shake violently and all the lights on the dashboard started to flash. It was very scary. Flooding my thought was, “Oh no. It’s Friday afternoon. How will I ever get the car fixed? I am leaving on a trip in a couple of days. Will I need to get a rental car? How will I get home to be there for my son?” Then the message came again, “There is no out there.” I stopped human planning and was still. I reminded myself that I was always and only in God’s consciousness and I should just relax and see the order of Principle, God, in action.

I then calmly drove down the street to a repair shop that I have used before, eager to see what God had planned. Their parking lot was empty. “Oh no, are they open?” I thought. Yes they were open. But the place was empty except the service manager and another man. I explained my car trouble and time sensitivity. The man next to the service manager immediately went out to check my car. In a few minutes he had discovered the problem and they said they could fix it in an hour. My check maintenance light had been on. They could fix that in an hour too. God guided me to call a church friend to meet my son when he got home. She lovingly dropped everything and drove up to our home just as my son arrived.

In talking to the service manager I discovered the reason that they were able to promptly fix my car. Their company was sponsoring a daylong Christian worship musical event the next day, and they had cleared their schedule in preparation. Also, the mechanic was in the process of going home as I drove in and they got the needed parts before the parts house closed early to check inventory. No details left out of God’s plan.

While we were talking, the mechanic came in to inform me that my back brakes were metal to metal, not a surprise as we live on a steep mountain-side. They could fix those within the hour too.

In the consciousness of Love, all is in order. The car problem was fixed, the maintenance done, and the brakes changed, and I got home within an hour and a quarter to see my son happily reading books with my friend. As a side note, the name of the repair shop is Akua Automotive. Akua means God in Hawaiian.