I still remember the awe I felt during my first airplane flight, cross-country from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. As the plane ascended, I watched the landscape changing in what was, for me, a novel way. Individual trees merged into clumps of color, streets and rivers shed their names and became only straight or curved lines on a living map. As we continued east, each state we flew over merged seamlessly into the next. As the landscape altered, so did my perspective.
If you climb high enough, boundaries disappear. Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of The Herald of Christian Science, challenged limits and boundaries throughout her life. Her vision of one God as universal good, supreme and infinitely loving, is definitively presented for all to read about in her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. In the spirit of universal brotherhood and sisterhood that she worked tirelessly to advance, she wrote: "With one Father, even God, the whole family of man would be brethren; and with one Mind and that God, or good, the brotherhood of man would consist of Love and Truth...."Science and Health, pp. 469-470.
Today this "whole family of man" is witnessing the transforming power of her book.
