Oneness is a feeling we often get when held in a physical embrace. But the positive impress of an embrace can be felt even without physical touch.
In a biography titled Mary Baker Eddy: Her Mission and Triumph, Julia Michael Johnston shares an account of when young Mary was ill with fever. Her mother “told her to turn to God in prayer and to rest in His love” (p. 5). She did so and felt what she would later describe as an “ineffable joy” (Mary Baker Eddy, Retrospection and Introspection, p. 13). The fever had vanished and, Her Mission and Triumph states, “proof was hers of the God who is Love, and of the nature of Love to heal” (p. 5). The embrace she felt was more powerful and tender than even a physical hug.
Throughout her life, Mrs. Eddy carried a profound love for God. She pursued a study of the Bible that deepened her understanding of God as Love. “It was [the] sense of God with her that touched the deepest feelings of men and women” (Mary Baker Eddy: Her Mission and Triumph, p. 94). And it awakened them to feel more of their oneness with divine Love.
