MANY YEARS AGO, I began to notice that the eyesight in one of my eyes was deteriorating. At first I was alarmed and really prayed, claiming my spirituality and unbreakable relation to God—but more from a standpoint of fear than conviction. Although my vision in that eye continued to dim, I still had some vision there. So I sort of got used to the condition and began to ignore it.
Finally one night, I found myself thinking that I didn't really need to worry about my eye. If I went blind in it, I was sure I could get by on one eye until I died, and then I would get new eyes! It was as though there was someone else in the room thinking totally nutty thoughts. I was like, "Excuse me? What did you just think?"
This really was a big wake-up call. In Science and Health Mary Baker Eddy wrote, "The recognition of Spirit and of infinity comes not suddenly here or hereafter." And in the next paragraph: "Existence continues to be a belief of corporeal sense until the Science of being is reached" (pp. 76–77).
