This happy news is told us by Mary Baker Eddy in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (p. 206): "In the scientific relation of God to man, we find that whatever blesses one blesses all, as Jesus showed with the loaves and the fishes,—Spirit, not matter, being the source of supply." This knowledge that "whatever blesses one blesses all" gives us incentive and enthusiasm for each opportunity of solving a problem in Christian Science.
I would like to express my joyous appreciation for just a few of the many opportunities we have had in our home to prove the truth of God's perfect creation as it is explained in the first chapter of Genesis, and as our Way-shower, Christ Jesus, demonstrated. He told us that we could do the same. "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also" (John 14: 12). Our inspired Leader's explanation of divine Science teaches specifically how to perform the miracles Jesus did so naturally. In the textbook, Science and Health, her definition of "miracle" reads in part: "That which is divinely natural, but must be learned humanly" (p. 591).
In the first years of his life, our son was below normal in mental and physical skills. He had very little coordination, which made it difficult for him to learn to swim, ride a bike, skate, or perform any of the normal activities of little boys. He was also extremely slow in his schoolwork. We constantly applied the spiritual truths taught in the textbooks, the Bible and Science and Health, refusing to accept this lie about man, knowing that God's creation expresses Him, and therefore is intelligent, perfectly coordinated, and well balanced.
