For a couple of days last year, I felt very ill and lethargic, not wanting to do or eat anything. My daughter, who lives near me, offered to bring me meals. I thanked her but said I couldn’t eat.

I sat in my recliner, surrounded by my Bible, Mary Baker Eddy’s writings, and copies of the Christian Science periodicals. I did some reading but wasn’t really absorbing the ideas. In the early afternoon of the second day, my daughter called to invite me to have dinner at her home, which I declined, again saying I just didn’t feel like eating anything and didn’t even want to move.

After her call, though, I decided that enough was enough, and that I needed to challenge this false suggestion of illness with a clearer understanding of the truth about me. I had read the weekly Bible Lesson from the Christian Science Quarterly that morning, but now I read it again, carefully pondering the ideas it contained from the Bible and from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.