Article August 29, 2011 Issue

God gave you dominion

By Ethel Baker

The divine Mind is the Soul of man, and gives man dominion over all things. Man was not created from a material basis, nor bidden to obey material laws which Spirit never made; his province is in spiritual statutes, in the higher law of Mind.

–Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 307

Once on a flight, I was seated next to a civil engineer from Nigeria. As we talked, I learned he had traveled to more than 40 countries for his work and was en route to yet another job in the United States. To my surprise, however, as soon as the plane began to taxi down the runway, he grabbed both armrests, and confessed in a whisper, “I hate flying.” 