SEVERAL YEARS AGO when I was a college professor I was scheduled to teach a 9:10 a.m. literature class featuring my favorite poet, William Wordsworth. I'd prepared an enlightening presentation, I felt, and was chomping at the bit, so to speak, for 9:10 to roll around.
However, at about 8:30 I was suddenly assailed by aggressive flu-like symptoms, which grew worse by the minute. Emphatically a glitch in my plans. Meeting with my class was decidedly out of the question. Or so I thought, since the symptoms were quite daunting.
But then I picked up my copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, an invaluable "road-map" that I have used many times over the years as a dependable means of finding my way "home" to the truth of my being when problems or adverse physical conditions arise. I found myself randomly reading these words: "Mortal mind is ignorant of self, or it could never be self-deceived." And, "Since it must believe in something besides itself, it enthrones matter as deity" (p. 186).
