“The only evidence here is of Mind knowing all”

This testimony stands as a testament not only to the healing experience described but also to overcoming resistance to write this or anything affirming the power and might of Mind in contrast to the considerable objections of mortal thought.

In the early days of my career, I found that my job brought unusual problems for me to solve. I took a new job, and the first day I was handed a bunch of printer parts and told to drive an hour to a customer with a broken laserjet printer. I had absolutely no experience in fixing printers – none – the most I had ever done was change a toner cartridge.  The printer was successfully repaired with a little phone support, and I grew in the job with increasingly difficult problems to solve. One day the University of Washington called, described their whole vast network of switches, routers, firewalls, and servers over the phone, said that half a dozen people had given up on solving the issue, but would I come and fix this network right away?  While I was able to fix the problem, and I did know that something was at work beyond me, I recall it as a time when I was proud that I “figured it out.”  Maybe I gave God a little credit, but the full understanding that Mind is the ONLY source of intelligence, the ONLY thing that knows, would take years to develop – close to 20 years in fact.

Of course, that 20 years wasn’t in isolation.  There were dozens of healing experiences, some small and some life changing along the way that would ultimately convince and show me that feeling like you’re turning to God when you need something but that the rest of the time, “I got this,” is foolish and misplaced hubris. The fact is that Mind is divine, supreme, infinite – and there simply isn’t any room in “infinite” for anything else to have its own separate understanding.

So, about a month ago, one of my customers called and said that he’d been trying to solve a problem for a little over a week and he was getting nowhere.  All of a sudden their accounting software was running painfully slowly, to the point that it was virtually unusable.  However if he allowed it to log into the server directly, rather than using the software on individual computers, the speed was normal.  I agreed to have one of our engineers work on it, which he did, and he started with database clean up, examining antivirus, and all the “usual suspects” – after eight hours of his time, we were better off in some ways but not on the reported problem.  School had just started up again, and the client was feeling very hindered by this problem now that workers were back in the office. I offered to come onsite and see what could be figured out. As I drove to the site I called a practitioner, and said, “Well, we’ve been here before.  And we know exactly where to turn for answers.  Mind has had the answers before. There’s nowhere else to seek answers from, and Mind will show us the way again.”  There wasn’t much more to the conversation. We genuinely have had more problems of similar nature than we can possibly count.  Impossible situation – Mind knows.  Period.  And it’s not like we just stumbled on a cool unique trick. It so happens that the way to find answers is pretty nicely laid out in our textbook, so, we worked as MBE tells us to do and as Skip taught us. 

With that mental preparation, I walked into the server room. My customer showed me the problem. I asked him a couple questions. And then a beautiful and unique thing happened. Mind gave me the answer, which one might expect, but in a whole new way for me.  I blurted out, “The problem isn’t with your server; it’s the firewall.” That might not mean too much to this audience, but I hadn’t even logged into the firewall to check its configuration.  And then what really startled me is that I told the customer, “and it’s not a setting or a check box either.” Now that’s a little bit weird because it flies in the face of what’s obvious – if the firewall is the problem then normally you’d find the “wrong” setting and you’d change it.  But what Mind was telling me was that it was something about the firewall that broke without an administrator making an error.

I was so sure of what Mind was telling me that I started packing up my bag 15 minutes after arriving. The customer was startled and asked, “Well what do I do?’ I told him to contact the company that maintains his firewall and have them fix it. Sure enough, after the customer put a ticket in with the firewall vendor, they called him back the next day. They said they had pushed out new firmware to the firewall a few weeks ago, the day before the problem was reported. They didn’t believe that could possibly be the problem, but they rolled back the update, and the problem was solved immediately.

I hope that it is as clear to the reader as it was to me that there is absolutely zero evidence here of a smart computer guy. The only evidence here is of Mind knowing all. There is no way a computer guy could blame a firewall for a problem without having logged into it, without knowing something about that make and model of firewall, without having googled the issue, or without speaking to the vendor directly. And there is every reason to see this as fundamental proof that Mind is the very definition of all-knowing.

For this healing, and for our Leader’s profound work in writing Science and Health I am deeply grateful.