Does “good” need to travel?

Melissa Ann Howell Schier
3 min readJan 10, 2022

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Driving home from Colorado to Houston I saw a Werner tractor trailer truck pass by and on the side of the truck were the words, “moving goods to where they are safe”.
I pondered this a long time, pretty much most of the day and into today and I was thinking about “good” instead of “goods” and wondering if it is necessary for “good” to travel to be in a “safe place”?
With the recent occurrence of “epiphany”, I reasoned that it might SEEM like good needs to travel, the same way these three wise men traveled from the orient west, to find the baby Jesus, who was the embodiment of good.
I think it is interesting that there was not just one, or two, there were three, and they were not only wise men they were kings, and they were not only coming to acknowledge the baby Jesus, they came bearing gifts of great value and appeal.
It does not say that a few goofballs happened to stop by the manger scene, it says that three WISE men, traveled a great distance, bearing gifts.
But once they saw what it was that embodied good, the innocence and purity of an infant child Jesus, they realized that GOOD is a state of being, not a place.
“Good” obeys laws, and the parents of Jesus, traveled to the place of their origin so that they were able to be “counted”. They did not count for some foreign country, they counted right where they were supposed to be. The good they provided needed to be realized MOST IMPORTANTLY in their “home” environment.
I thought of our emotions as being our mental and emotional “environment”. Just like we cannot run away from our emotions and escape into a different environment, we cannot run away from our homes and our physical environment. The only way to change sadness into joy, is to CHOOSE to see good right where we are and to express joy as we are doing so.
It does not say Joy commeth with the mourning, it says Joy commeth IN THE MORNING, when the light of understanding dawns on our consciousness. In other words, we get to create our own “environment” right where we are in life, by what emotions we express, and by what good we pay attention to.
In the same way, we get to improve our PHYSICAL environment by what activities we express, and by using our talents, and obeying laws of order and principle, laws that allow us to embrace humanity in an equitable and harmonious way. In doing this, we can realize a prosperous and welcoming environment right where we are.
Jesus traveled all over, from city to city, but “the good” was not in “the destination”, it was in the restoration of health, the obedience to his heavenly father, and in his ability to see supply no matter what the limitations might seem to be.
And back to the beginning, where the truck said that it was moving goods to a safe place, I realized that God places innocence and purity right smack in the middle of family, and surrounds a baby with the good supplied by mother and father. Good ALREADY IS in its proper place because family supplies home and a place of unconditional love. The very young, and the very old, both innocent and pure, can been seen for their spiritual potential when seen with the eyes of of the wise men. They traveled very far in order to see what they already had.
Good is safe because God is good and God is the only power. The “epiphany” is in recognizing it right here, right now.

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Melissa Ann Howell Schier
Melissa Ann Howell Schier

Written by Melissa Ann Howell Schier

HoustonWorkout on YouTube, mom of five, journalist and artist and conservative who values life.

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