A student once asked his astronomy professor, “If I go to the end of the universe and poke my finger through, won’t the universe keep going?” His question implied he was thinking of the universe as a physically spatial entity, and the professor replied that the student needed to exchange his concept of a material universe, which would be inherently limited, for a mathematical model that represented ideas.
Like the student, I found myself making the same mistake while trying to resolve an increasingly restrictive and unpleasant business conflict with a couple. Instead of accepting an expansive model of service where everyone could benefit, I had thought I was playing a zero-sum game, where whatever was gained by one party would be lost by the other. Mentally, I, too, was poking a hole through a limited material universe, rather than turning to the ideas of Spirit, God—infinite Love, Life, Truth.
In the Christian Science textbook, Mary Baker Eddy says in the chapter entitled “Christian Science Practice”: “If students do not readily heal themselves, they should early call an experienced Christian Scientist to aid them” (p. 420).
