In our part of the country it was quite usual for a woman to use the expression "my man": "Well, my man hasn't come home for supper yet," or, "I'll talk it over with my man." It was, perhaps, provincial, but its tenor wasn't possessive or jealous, just close and tender.
It remained for a Christian Science practitioner to show me the depth of meaning those two words could attain. On the phone I mentioned I'd read in the morning paper of a plan to close the city schools that day because of an epidemic. Back came these words: "That's no part of my man!" She added strongly, "That's not going on in my man!"
Obviously she had a broader and higher concept of man than I, and study was much in order. The Concordances to Mrs. Eddy's works yielded many gems: "God is one. The allness of Deity is His oneness. Generically man is one, and specifically man means all men." Science and Health, p. 267. Again: "We do not see much of the real man here, for he is God's man; while ours is man's man." Unity of Good, p. 46. The challenge, then, is for us to see God's man here, rather than the mortal sense of man that appears to the physical senses.
