Article August 17, 2015 Issue

Our substance—safe and intact

Jan Keeler

It was one of those days when I had many errands to run before flying out of town early the next morning. I hurried into a little gift boutique, where I noticed a pretty purse displayed high up on a glass shelf. As I reached up to admire it, the shelf, which was not anchored, came down and its corner landed on my foot. I was wearing sandals.

Rewind for a minute. Earlier that morning, I had been praying to understand myself and my true substance as God’s spiritual idea instead of a limited, vulnerable mortal with material body parts that could break down, be injured, or die. It’s a topic that has been of interest to me for a long time, and that particular morning I was trying to think it through more deeply.

I had been reading Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, which helped me better understand this subject. Its author, Mary Baker Eddy, explains that God, divine Love, fills all space and that His omnipresence constitutes all being, including my being.

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