In Science and Health (p. xi), Mary Baker Eddy speaks of "a divine influence ever present in human consciousness"—the Christ.
Last year, I was driving up a curvy mountain road. Coming from the opposite direction was a speeding truck. I pulled over and stopped. The driver had lost control. He fishtailed, then rolled over and over, flipped onto my car, shearing off the top of it, and came to rest on the other side of the road. The word impossible came to me loud and clear. Later, I thought, yes—an accident is unacceptable, unthinkable, and impossible to God and therefore to me or anyone.
When I became fully conscious and saw no windshield and no roof, I felt nobody could have survived, and wondered if I had passed on. At that moment, though, a man came up to my car with his cell phone. I asked him to call my wife and have her call a Christian Science practitioner. A woman on a motorcycle, who was a nurse and had a first aid kit, dressed my wounds, but no medication was applied. Breakage was apparent in my hip, leg, knee, and foot. Stitches were recommended for numerous lacerations. The air bag had not deployed, so the steering wheel had been pushed into my chest.
