When I began studying Christian Science many years ago, I was unfamiliar with the Bible. Yet as I prayed with the weekly Bible Lessons in the Christian Science Quarterly I grew to love the Scriptures, especially the Gospels. Wouldn’t it have been wonderful to have heard Christ Jesus preach! Each Bible section is paired with passages from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. As I studied those passages, too, and began to read Science and Health from beginning to end, I thought how inspiring it must have been to hear Mrs. Eddy speak, or to have been a student in one of her classes.
In both the Scriptures and Mrs. Eddy’s writings there are so many accounts of healing. The book of Matthew notes that Jesus healed “all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people” (4:23). The Gospel of Mark also reports that Jesus’ disciples “went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following” (16:20). I love the idea of “signs following”: proofs of the power of God, demonstrating dominion over sickness or disease. If God did not create any inharmony—and He didn’t—then it can’t be part of our true being. Mrs. Eddy wrote that one part of the revelation of Christian Science is “the proof, by present demonstration, that the so-called miracles of Jesus did not specially belong to a dispensation now ended, but that they illustrated an ever-operative divine Principle” (Science and Health, p. 123). Recently I had an opportunity to see that “present demonstration” for myself.
My family was looking forward to hosting some weekend guests and meeting their one-year-old son. I was busy cleaning the house and making it “baby-proof,” putting away breakable items and little things he might be tempted to put in his mouth. Getting everything ready meant taking many trips up and down the stairs. The day before our guests were to arrive there was still much to do, and I was feeling a bit concerned that I would not check everything off my to-do list.
