October 2004
I get enormous benefit from reading Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy. As she says "it points to the perfect principle of things". There are many many books that promote positive healing and most of them are very helpful in one way or another but this work is the only one that is totally comprehensive and has one source as its authority this is the bible.
After she learnt how to heal she practiced recorded her methods publicly and because she was so well known and active in her community people still refer to her as Mrs eddy. So while she was going about everyday life like you and Ime she was continually revising her book so that to this day we can
see how we need to turn to God. This book was in such demand that she published at least 50 editions adding recent insights to help convey the message.
Since then everyone who reads this book feels the benefit of this dedication to perfecting the healing principle, which she has elucidated.
One thing she points out as necessary is found on page 392. It is easy sometimes but subtleties often cause us to forget. She tells her readers to "Stand porter at the door of thought. Admitting only such conclusions as you wish realized in bodily results you will contol yourself harmoniously." And what she goes on to say I found helpful in the following instance.
Last week something shocked me, immeasurably, burning my face. A huge wasp fell out of an infrared light while it was in a greengrocers. I found myself saying "God governs". The stallholder looked relieved! It immediately stopped me from being terrorized into wondering how I was going to be later.
All would be well if God was governing all the time and I knew that to be the case.
As he pulled down the shutters I asked him if he had a tissue as my eye was weeping. All he had was a brown paper bag, which I accepted gratefully. I tore off a piece and held it to my eye as I cycled home, while I excluded the offending errors and said I had nothing to fear as God was the only cause and effect in his world of harmony and nothing could try to terrorize me into feeling anything could happen to me apart from good. I just felt tucked up in his love and kept thinking that way every time my thought was brought back to the thought of pain. Then I just said "no". I did this all through the evening. When I got back home I prepared to go out to a concert. Our daughter was concerned in case someone had hit me!! But I explained and told the family that I was totally ok.
And that proved to be the case. By the end of the evening my husband told me my face was back to normal.
