Goodness, not “niceness”
/Question 2: Share a testimony other than physical healing in which reading one or more of Skip’s articles had played an important part in your own spiritual study and prayer and final demonstration.
In “Lessons from the movies” (Sentinel, April 27, 1987), Skip quotes this statement by Mary Baker Eddy, “Man’s real ego, or selfhood, is goodness” (No and Yes, p. 26). I really love praying with this thought, which has chipped away at a human sense of personality, my own and other people’s. I have long felt a desire to be “nice” and to be viewed as “nice” by others. Thinking about this statement has helped me realize goodness, not a human sense of “niceness,” is what I express — and what everyone expresses.