In November of 1992 I had developed a rash on my face. Since I had to be at the university to finish the last weeks of the semester, I spent the entire week of the Thanksgiving break reading from Science and Health. I held to the commandment "Thou shalt have no other gods before me" (Ex. 20:3) and made a point of reminding myself when I washed my face that the one God is the only power.
Within a few days my face
was completely normal.
The Christian Science practitioner I called to pray for me reminded me that I was a spotless idea of God. Mary Baker Eddy points out in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany: "God creates man perfect and eternal in His own image. Hence man is the image, idea, or likeness of perfection—an ideal which cannot fall from its inherent unity with divine Love, from its spotless purity and original perfection" (p. 262).
