Recently I Was intrigued by the following passage from Science and Health: "God never punishes man for doing right, for honest labor, or for deeds of kindness, though they expose him to fatigue, cold, heat, contagion. If man seems to incur the penalty through matter, this is but a belief of mortal mind, not an enactment of wisdom, and man has only to enter his protest against this belief in order to annul it" (p. 384). The passage seemed to be saying that if something untoward happened to you under the specified conditions, all you had to do was to enter your protest, and annulment was certain. I read the passage several times each day, so as to impress it on my memory.
I run a pet-boarding business at my home, and that week I had in my care a very large, very strong, very sweet, but rambunctious golden retriever that was scheduled to go home the following Monday morning. When the time came, bright and early on Monday, I took the dog out to the street to wait for her owner. Well, when the dog saw her owner, she lunged toward the car with such force that she yanked me right off the ground! I had her leash wound around my wrist, so I couldn't let go. I felt my feet leave the ground and was conscious of being horizontally airborne for a split second before pancaking, chest first, onto the concrete.
The thought came, "I will not be impressed by this picture."
