We all love stories. Since before Aristotle it has been that way. We often explain life in metaphorical terms using fictional stories. Human life can be thought of as having the three building blocks of a beginning, a middle, and an end (much like a three-act play, for example).
Another trio is expressed in Mary Baker Eddy’s writings, where she referred to the errors of sin, disease, and death, usually in that order. She referred to them as a “dolorous and fatal triad” (Science and Health, p. 552).
It struck me not too long ago that this “fatal triad” can be viewed very much like the three-part structure of a story. After all, isn’t that what the world tells us the story of human experience is all about? The parallel is telling:
