I used to wonder about the meaning of “Whatever blesses one blesses all,” as Mary Baker Eddy writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. The full passage says, “In the scientific relation of God to man, we find that whatever blesses one blesses all, as Jesus showed with the loaves and the fishes,—Spirit, not matter, being the source of supply” (p. 206). How can one person’s healing actually bless everyone? I got clarity on this when my family had an experience that truly blessed everyone involved.
Several weeks before I was set to return to England to graduate from university after participating in an internship abroad, my mum called to tell me that she’d been offered a furnished house that was in an amazing, but remote, location. This was unexpected news. The new home would be a few hours’ drive from where our family had been living. I could tell in my mum’s voice that she was excited but a little unsure. The thought came to me, “What blesses one blesses all,” and instead of getting upset about the sudden decision to move, I couldn’t help feeling overjoyed for her. I could immediately tell this was a right idea from God.
But then a few weeks after the conversation, I started to feel doubt and worries. I thought, “Well, if your mum moves away, where are you going to live?” “You haven’t got a job back in the United Kingdom yet; how are you going to afford to rent a house?” I had started to look for a job, but I hadn’t yet found a position that felt right.
