Article May 4, 2020 Issue

Shielded from contagion during air travel

Susan Tish

Originally published in The Christian Science Monitor’s Christian Science Perspective column March 2, 2020.

Ever since I was young, traveling on an airplane has represented a thrilling adventure. As a child, airports were my favorite place to be. But as an adult, I’ve found that there have been times when feelings of fear and helplessness have emerged while traveling.

For instance, on a recent flight, a friend sitting next to me confessed that the rest of her family was at home with the flu and that now she felt she was coming down with the symptoms, too. As I listened to her fears, my first reaction was worry that I would catch the illness myself.

But I realized that rather than succumbing to fear, there was something more constructive and health-promoting that I could do while sitting there in my seat. It is an idea I read in a book written by Mary Baker Eddy. It says: “... keep your minds so filled with Truth and Love, that sin, disease, and death cannot enter them.... Good thoughts are an impervious armor; clad therewith you are completely shielded from the attacks of error of every sort” (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 210).

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