I love Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. It feeds me; it encourages me; it helps me understand the Bible better. Reading and studying it from cover to cover gives me a different perspective from reading just small portions of it, though both are valuable. I try to read it all the way through regularly, and one night in the fall of 1998 I was impelled to start once again. My only goal was to understand more about God and His creation.
I didn't expect a wonderful healing, but this is what happened about a week later. A friend was over for a quick dinner before going to the theater, and we were on a tight schedule. Near the conclusion of the dinner, I foolishly licked my knife (newly restored and sharpened) and cut my tongue. I was surprised and shocked. I bolted to the bathroom, but the bleeding wouldn't stop. My fear was intense, and at first all I could do was repeat, "God is All," several times. Then a sentence I'd read from Science and Health within the past day or so came swiftly to thought: "The spiritual essence of blood is sacrifice" (p. 25). Suddenly I knew that I didn't have to sacrifice anything good—including a happy time with a friend. Rather, I had to give up whatever the material senses were suggesting to me—fear, a sense of stupidity, and the belief that God would allow an accident. In the time that it took to think these thoughts, the bleeding stopped.
I didn't have to sacrifice anything good.
