Years ago I worked as a nanny for a family with a small dog. One Monday afternoon, when I was lifting the dog off a bed, she bit me hard across the bridge of my nose. I was shocked, as she was accustomed to being handled and had never reacted to me that way before.
Feeling lightheaded and afraid I might lose consciousness, I called a Christian Science practitioner for help through prayer. As soon as I reached her, the fear of losing consciousness disappeared, and the lightheadedness quickly left.
The subject of the Bible Lesson from the Christian Science Quarterly that week was “God,” and it contained several references to face, which the practitioner read to me from the Bible and Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. One in particular stood out: “When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek” (Psalms 27:8). To seek God’s face is to seek the divine source of one’s own being, untouched by so-called mortal beliefs, including unpredictability or violence.
