I used to feel concerned that some By-Laws Mary Baker Eddy included in the Manual of The Mother Church seemed outdated or unnecessary for our time. One in particular is on page 48: “A member of The Mother Church shall not haunt Mrs. Eddy’s drive when she goes out, continually stroll by her house, or make a summer resort near her for such a purpose.” I couldn’t understand why this By-Law needed to be there forever. However, I found it helped bring healing after my Christian Science teacher passed on and I was missing her a lot. One day it dawned on me that I was “haunting her driveway”—longing to see my teacher physically instead of realizing the impossibility of death, and, therefore, the impossibility of separation. After thinking about it in this way, I found that if I had a question I wished I could ask my teacher, an answer would come to me not long after thinking about the question. It made me think of Isaiah 65:24: “Before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.” This says to me that the answers are always there. God, divine Mind, knows all the answers to all the questions, and the answers are available to us at all times.
