After our summer vacation a year ago, my husband and I were driving back to New York City. Just as we turned off the highway to get gas, there was a sudden sharp pain in my chest, and I felt I was losing consciousness and physical mobility. We quickly came to a small park, where I asked to stop. There I collapsed on the grass, feeling that if I weren’t lying down, I would faint.
Barely conscious enough to speak, I asked my husband to call a Christian Science practitioner. He held the phone to my ear, and I explained the situation briefly and perhaps incoherently. The practitioner responded lovingly, “You are alive and awake to what the Christ is telling you. I’ll pray.”
I realized as she hung up that I had an assignment—to listen to Christ, Truth. In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy describes Christ as “the true idea voicing good, the divine message from God to men speaking to the human consciousness” (p. 332). I could feel the calming presence of the Christ lifting and stirring my thought.
