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A swift healing
I was recently working in my garage at a workbench I have at the rear of the space. I was adding an extension to a hockey stick. The sticks are hollow, and a solid wooden extension can be added into the end to make it longer. The extension was larger than the hole and got stuck partway in. I was using a knife to shave the wood so it could fit into the hole. I slipped and cut my thumb. My first thought was, “This is not good,” but before that thought was even uttered a second came “What you think is more powerful ….”
This was a reminder to me of a statement by Mary Baker Eddy in her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. The full passage, along with the ensuing paragraph is: “When an accident happens, you think or exclaim, ‘I am hurt!’ Your thought is more powerful than your words, more powerful than the accident itself, to make the injury real.
“Now reverse the process. Declare that you are not hurt and understand the reason why, and you will find the ensuing good effects to be in exact proportion to your disbelief in physics, and your fidelity to divine metaphysics, confidence in God as All, which the Scriptures declare Him to be” (p. 397).
Although I didn’t have these full statements at that time, I had read that page many times and knew that I had to change my thought.
Through my study of Christian Science, I’ve learned that I am the reflection of God, spiritual and complete, not material—and as such I cannot be injured. I am governed by God not by the belief of an accident or any other negative influence. My true identity is not a material body; I am spiritual, the perfect reflection of Spirit. These concepts are foundational in Christian Science, and were all implied in that one thought I had, “What you think is more powerful ….”
I went into the house and washed my thumb and put a bandage on it. I went right back out to the garage and finished the project. I kept the state of my thumb out of my thought, and when it came to my attention I declared I was not hurt, but instead was the complete and spiritual reflection of God.
That night I changed the bandage and the cut was sealed. The next morning I could hardly tell where the cut was, and all evidence of injury was gone the next day. I am very grateful to Mrs. Eddy for discovering this Science that can be turned to in all situations.