It seemed pretentious, even egotistical, to presume that any prayer uttered by me could impact an international weather condition. And I have no proof that it did. But I’ll tell you what happened…
Over the last month or so, there has been a serious shortfall of snow in the northwest part of the USA where I live. In years past, the Blue Mountains, near my home, had up to eight feet of snow by now. This year, it was around two feet and no new snow was falling.
I didn’t realize the severity of the situation until articles started popping up in the press around here warning residents of a water crisis in the making.
Then, about a week ago on the CBS Evening News, Scott Pelley had a sophisticated computer-graphic on screen to show the world why there was a major shortage of precipitation in Canada and the upper half of the US. Simply put, a monumental wind pressure system was creating a barrier south of the Arctic Circle that prevented moisture from moving further south and blessing North America.
As I watched the arrows swirling around on the TV screen outlining this formidable wall of so-called Mother Nature that kept rain from moving south, I thought, “I can pray about this. There is no law of God keeping that moisture locked up north where it is not needed. There is a law of God that removes that wall, allows the moisture to move south and drop where it’s needed.”
At first, I thought, “Your prayer isn’t going to make any difference. Why even pray?” But then I remembered what Christian Science had taught me about waking up to reality and improving the human condition around us.
We live in a universe of divine Mind where conditions and circumstances are determined by God, Spirit. Through spiritual sense, we find this control and experience more of it. What appears to be lack, chaos and disaster is ignorance of God’s harmonious control. I had learned over the years that as a better understanding of God’s control is gained, the discord disappears.
So, I realized, it didn’t make any difference how many millions of people believed in a water shortage, or how many laws the physical sciences argued were holding that harmful weather pattern in place. None of it had any effect in God’s universe where divine Mind determines all weather patterns and placement of resources. In truth, there was not a high pressure system preventing showers from moving south to North America.
I found great peace in my prayer, knowing that God’s laws supersede and overrule all physical laws and maintain balance and order. I didn’t outline what I expected to happen on earth, but felt assurance that the right thing would happen at the right time.
A few days later, guess what happened? Snow! In fact, lots of it in many parts of the region. Some would say too much. But what a nice change in such a short period of time.
I’d venture a guess that many of you have been praying about the weather too. It makes a difference!
I haven’t heard if the pressure system up north is gone, but I do know we’re getting needed precipitation. And that’s very good.
Love it! Sounds like the people in your area are also enjoying their time off from work or school, too. Heard a broadcast from Seattle that people were skiing in the streets. The statement you made, “in God’s universe where divine Mind determines all weather patterns and placement of resources.” was especially helpful. I’m praying about an issue about “placement of resources”. Always enjoy your blogs. Thanks so much for sharing.
Someone told me the other day, “we are the weather”. Our individual and collective thoughts and emotions determine the outcome of our environment and that includes the weather, it determines how we experience intercations with the people in our lives, the quality of the work we do, our health, etc. I often say that the world is not out there, but it begins in our thinking,how we feel and consequnetly view our world, that is what we’ll experience. There are universal spiritual laws that govern harmonious being on earth, including right weather, and when we align our thinking with those laws then we experience good in our lives. There is only one divine Mind, God’s Mind, that intelligently rules over the earth and determines all right things. Holding to this truth, we too experience only good in our lives.
Thank you Evan for the reminder that our prayers can be answered on local, national and even world concerns.
The snow In my area of Snohomish WA has been sparklingly beautiful.
We need to continue our prayers to know that the freezing rain and added rain in the forecast will not harm us also. Power outages galore. However – who is in complete control, I say complete control? Only God. Principle is in aciton and will keep calm, order and the needed meltdown in an harmonious fashion.
I just wrote a poem last week entitled “Wind of Another Sort”. It is based on the spiritual interpretation of “wind” found on page 597 in Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
It goes:
The wind comes
Combs branches of trees
Connects the high pressures with lows
Covers earth with harmonic tones
And causes conundrums to vanish.
Thank you! I read a report by CS lecturers, and it included many instances of praying about the weather conditions. I have had several myself, when pressed by bad conditions, severe rainstorms, drought, blizzards in the Sierras. The Horn of Africa had extreme drought, now followed by flooding. It is the extreme that is the seeming problem, and the normal we wish to experience. We need to “grow our compassion” to feel the need to pray for the faraway places, brought close by the media.
I am thoroughly convinced we and the mental environment and weather are one. G
A concerted group of CS from around the US and abroad prayed to be revealed what was needed to counter the doom sayers after Katrina. Some good ideas were shared with the world on the internet.
These mal-sayers predicted worst hurricanes than Katrina as the new norm and even more than previous history. That was now over five years ago. Where are these prophets of doom or Gloom now? Where are their voices heard. “A lying tongue is but for a season” paraphrasing from the Bible.
When beliefs of probable causes were addressed, thoughts were corrected and what has happened since Katrina? Nothing. All these fears vanished into their native nothingness. The power of prayer does bring immediate results. And after five years, it will continue. G
… I especially connect with your deep spiritual insight that neither the number of people believing in a certain ‘fact’, or the number of ‘laws’ supporting that ‘fact’ has the slightest effect in Mind’s universe, my Mind.
This idea can be taken into any arguement of material sense, even to the ‘last enemy’, because although it would make itself so, it’s not the problem that is primary, but the Principle being proved, which remains the same yeterday, today & tomorrow.
Thank you!
This article proves that YES! We CAN change the weather through prayer.