Deuteronomy 2: 3 says: "You have compassed this mountain long enough : go toward the north" (Douay-Rheims 1889 American Edition).
I am reminded of the passage in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy that says: "There is but one real attraction, that of Spirit. The pointing of the needle to the pole symbolizes this all-embracing power or the attraction of God, divine Mind" (p. 102: 9).
Was it now time for the children of Israel to get off the merry-go-round of fear, procrastination and grumbling, and enter the Promised Land, not so much a physical move so much as a mental shift towards obedience, gratitude, and grace?
Peter Henniker-Heaton had a nice grasp on compass points:
We cannot turn away from God / Because, whichever way we face, / Spirit is there. In every place, / Every direction, everywhere, / Spirit is there.
Whether we turn to left or right, / To north or south or east or west, / We meet with Love—and we are blessed. / Upward or down, below, above, / We meet with Love.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 591:1, 2)
Julie Swannell
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Thank you for these thoughts.
I love this poem of Peter Henniker-Heaton's.
To stop any procrastinating and fruitless wandering, and instead to have a steady resolve to seek Spirit alone, is to be drawn by Spirit, by that all-embracing attraction or power of the divine Mind. That's heading north.
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