Testimony of Healing February 8, 2016 Issue

Stolen purse recovered

Martha Gauger

Many years ago, on a beautiful Sunday morning in the summer, my then two-year-old daughter and I were getting ready to go to church. It was our custom to declare two truths as we dressed—that God, good, is ever present, and that the only thing going on is good.

Mary Baker Eddy states in Unity of Good, “God created all things, and pronounced them good” (p. 15). Later in the book she writes, “ ‘The things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.’ (2 Corinthians iv. 18.) This is the mystery of godliness—that God, good, is never absent, and there is none beside good” (p. 62).

My husband was out of town that particular Sunday. I parked my car in our usual spot under Michigan Avenue in Chicago. As we got out of our car, a man passed and we exchanged good mornings. He went up the stairs to upper Michigan Avenue, and then my daughter and I started up the stairs. About halfway up, the man we had passed earlier came down, demanding that I give him my purse and the keys to my car.

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