Have you ever had a dream where you could fly, where you had the ability to take off, soar, and look down on scenes below? I had such a dream recently. I could move sideways and up and down. I could push myself off the ground and shoot into the air as if I had a personal rocket strapped to my back.
This dream, together with inspiration from that week’s Christian Science Bible Lesson on “Substance,” helped shine some light for me on praying about human disability and dysfunction. In Christian Science, we are learning to see ourselves as God made us—painless and free, unencumbered by what the material senses might report about our bodies or minds. I was inspired by these sentences from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: “It is a false supposition, the notion that there is real substance-matter, the opposite of Spirit” (p. 278); “Substance is that which is eternal and incapable of discord and decay” (p. 468).
Neither Christ Jesus nor Mary Baker Eddy accepted disability when they encountered it; they both healed paralysis, insanity, deformity, blindness, even death, with absolute confidence, knowing that the power of God, Spirit, was fully capable of rectifying and restoring what seemed to be abnormal or absent functioning.
