Every year my husband and I participate in a long biking trip through the Wisconsin hills as members of a bicycle club. Sometimes we cover as many as one hundred and seventy miles in three days.
On one of these expeditions my knee became weak and painful. I began to reason scientifically—to spiritualize my thought. It was clear to me that material means couldn't actually remedy the situation, since matter is not true substance. Mrs. Eddy explains this point in "the scientific statement of being" in Science and Health. She begins (p. 468): "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all." Then, where could I turn for help? To a person? I knew that in truth the one divine Person is God, and I knew also that I could turn confidently to Him for help. His allness was right there at that moment, and I was reflecting His strength and freedom.
I denied the insistent argument of stiffness and pain on the grounds that since matter has no intelligence, it cannot decide on a series of symptoms or dictate disease. The one Mind is the only intelligence, and it is cognizant only of itself—infinite Spirit. As Mind's expression, man is, in reality, conscious of what Mind knows.
