In 2019, when my daughter was about two years old, my parents and I were playing with her on an outdoor playground. One of the activities for the children involved grabbing on to a small overhead bar shaped like a triangle, which slides along a track and allows them to swing from one platform to another. I stood on one side. My dad stood on the other. We each took a turn pushing her across as we held on to her. She loved it and wanted to go again.
When it was my turn to push her, instead of holding her the entire time, I let go of her a couple of feet before she reached my dad. She had held on to the bar tightly the first time, so I was confident she’d hold on this time, too. Instead, she let go before my dad caught her and fell several feet to the ground.
She began to cry, and I immediately picked her up. Holding and comforting her, I declared that accidents in God’s kingdom are impossible. The Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, states, “Accidents are unknown to God, or immortal Mind, and we must leave the mortal basis of belief and unite with the one Mind, in order to change the notion of chance to the proper sense of God’s unerring direction and thus bring out harmony” (p. 424).
