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Spiritual Short

God was there

From the April 2025 issue of The Christian Science Journal


A couple of years back, while on a cycling trip, I was dwelling on a statement from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: “The spiritual universe, including individual man, is a compound idea, reflecting the divine substance of Spirit” (p. 468). I loved both exploring the author’s careful choice of words in Science and Health and expanding my understanding of their meaning. I thought of the “uni-” in “universe” as pointing to the oneness and allness of being. And I considered “individual man” as undivided, indivisible, whole—“man” being the term for all of God’s sons and daughters, expressing the intelligence, substance, and reality of Spirit.

While I was dwelling on these thoughts, a car drove into me. The driver had not seen my husband cycle in front of the car as she waited at a junction, and didn’t see me follow him. I was lying under her hood between the front wheels with my front bike tire trapped under her wheel.

When she reversed her car off the bike, I was able to bounce straight back up without a scratch. I reassured her (and the bystanders) that I was absolutely untouched. This was a wonderful example of protection. 

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