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'The sustaining infinite'

From the January 2006 issue of The Christian Science Journal


THE FIRST TIME I picked up Science and Health and read its first sentence, "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings" (p. vii), it grabbed my attention right away. I'd had no idea that there was such a thing as the "sustaining infinite." I had always felt that I was on my own, without a "sustaining infinite" to turn to. But the "sustaining infinite" certainly seemed an answer for anything that life could throw at you! Because of this first sentence, I read Science and Health from cover to cover. And I began to study this book daily.

One night, after I had been studying for three or four months, I had a head-on collision while driving home from work. I was thrown through the windshield of my car and traveled about 30 feet in the air, landing in a field. Later, I learned that rescuers who arrived at the scene thought I would not live through the night. I was taken, unconscious, to the hospital and admitted into the intensive care unit, where I was diagnosed with a broken collar bone, leg, and ankle, along with head injuries. Because of the nature of the head injuries and because I was unconscious, I was not given any medication.

The only thing I remember from this entire experience was hearing two words: "God is." I'm not sure where I was when I heard these words, or even if I was the one who was saying them. But at that moment, I felt and understood what I had been reading in Science and Health—that God is Principle, God is Love, God is Soul, God is Truth. And He is all there is.

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