I had a thought this morning that I’d like to share. I was thinking last night of the story in Ezekiel – how the prophet saw in a dream a valley of dry bones. After seeing the state of dryness of those bones Ezekiel probably could not fathom how they could ever be resurrected again but he quickly got into agreement with God, did as instructed and prophesied to the bones and they came together into a living, breathing, exceedingly great army in an amazing demonstration of God’s almightiness. As mentioned in the story of Sarah and Abraham from this week’s lesson there is indeed nothing too hard for the Lord.

Similarly in this week’s lesson when Sarah was told that she would bear a child even though she and Abraham “were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women”. Surely it had been decades since Sarah had had a menstrual period and she was probably thinking that her reproductive ability was bone dry and as far as her eyes could see having a child at her age was an impossibility. Like Ezekiel’s story later, Sarah and Abraham had to get into agreement with God’s vision rather than the testimony before their eyes.

I understand better what Mrs. Eddy was explaining when she said not to trust the material senses as evidence of God’s Truth.