It was a dark, cold, and damp winter night as I got into my car. I had just finished a long day’s work, and I felt I was definitely getting a cold. It had started earlier in the day, but I hadn’t had time to deal with it because of my busy work schedule.
As I started my drive home to my wife and two young sons, I turned on an audio recording of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. I’d known about Christian Science my whole life because my parents had enrolled me in a Christian Science Sunday School, and I had recently been eager to make this Science practical in my life—and live by its rules. I knew that many people had experienced physical healings by aligning with the divine laws in Science and Health, and I was hoping for some help with my current condition.
Soon after I started listening, the following sentence was read: “Mortal belief would have the material senses sometimes good and sometimes bad” (p. 489). As I thought about that statement, I considered it rather obvious. Why was it even being made? Of course the senses are sometimes good and sometimes bad because they are seeing things that are sometimes good and sometimes bad. Or was I missing the point? Knowing that I had never before found a sentence in this book that was without value, I began to doubt my understanding. So I began to reconsider.
