One evening while thinking about house/dwelling/home, these 2 statements kept coming to thought. "Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations" Psalms points out.
And this from Mary Baker Eddy's writings, "Pulpit and Press": The real house in which 'we live, and move, and have our being' is Spirit, God, the eternal harmony of infinite Soul." And further on in this Dedicatory Sermon is this thought, that our true dwelling place is no human fabrication.
Then, later in the evening when we were all in bed for the night, our dogs started barking wildly at the sound of an alarm. At first, it seemed it might be the next-door neighbor's, or the people across the street. But then, with blue flashing lights all over the room, it was clear the police were involved. Looking out the bedroom window, 5 police cars were visible, 3 at an angle in front of our neighbor's next door, and one alongside their house, and one on the street behind our subdivision. Several officers were out in the yard, also a dog tracking someone or someones apparently.
This continued for about two hours, with a wrecker coming to drag out one police car and the stolen car two men had jumped out of and fled. Several stores nearby had been robbed.
To get to the chase (so to speak), this stolen car had been traveling at a speed of 100mp an officer said, and when they saw our cul-de-sac didn't allow for an escape, threaded the car right between our house and the neighbor's. Not one thing was damaged, not any shrubbery or trees or flower beds or anything! This seemed remarkable given the narrow space they were faced with and the speed of the car.
I can't help thinking that the prayerful work done earlier in the evening accounted for this, and were we grateful to God for what He has revealed about where we really live.
