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Some years ago I was making a breakwater on the western shore...
Some years ago I was making a breakwater on the western shore of Lake Michigan and had to push large boulders over a bank with a tractor. Without warning, the clutch of the nine-ton crawler stuck, sending the vehicle tumbling to the rocks below. As it went over I jumped free but landed in such a way that my right leg was badly hurt and my knee dislocated. I lay where I had fallen for what seemed like a long time, declaring that I was truly spiritual—a divine manifestation of the one and only Mind, God—not a fallen or injured mortal. A neighbor happened along and helped me up the bank to my nearby home where I called a Christian Science practitioner.
The practitioner reminded me that since accidents have no claim to real life, that is, they are not included in God's expression, man, I could not show the effects of such things. I told him that I grasped what he said intellectually, but that I could not seem to wipe out the vivid impression of the incident. He replied that a person could remember a sleeping dream but that that could never make it something it had never been: real. We prayed to perceive and feel only what was real—harmony, wholeness, vitality—and in less than a week I was involved in normal activities again. The complete healing was accomplished in several more weeks, and during that time I learned something of what it means to be the perfect reflection of a perfect creator.
On another occasion, a condition of feeling ill off and on grew worse over a period of months until, at one time, I was bedridden for five weeks. It appeared to be a liver ailment that was often very painful and debilitating. The full healing came gradually as I gained a better understanding of Life as Spirit. I will always be grateful for the dedicated practitioners who stood by me during this period.
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December 8, 1980 issue
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How much are you worth?
CHARLES HOLLIS GREEN
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Compassion to heal
BARBARA B. HOLLIDAY
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The adventure of trusting God
CAM L. WHITMAN
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The football game I didn't hear—and the truth I did hear
VICTORIA K. DELL
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Truth must change us
STEVEN LEE FAIR
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Reversing the statements of error
LILA LOUISE FREEMANTLE
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Spiritual rhythm in human affairs
BARBARA M. VINING
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Spiritually quickening our sense of environment
GEOFFREY J. BARRATT
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Three R's and learning truths that heal
BEULAH M. ROEGGE
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Immortal being
NATHAN A. TALBOT
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Take God's thought
Carrie Christina Aardal
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I am grateful for the variety of needs that Christian Science...
ELIZABETH CAREY with contributions from ARCHIBALD CAREY
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One Friday morning I could not get out of bed
DOUGLAS ALLEN POWELL with contributions from GAIL LEE POWELL
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I have found that a recognition of God's presence can always...
ENID NARVER with contributions from HORACE H. NARVER
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Some years ago I was making a breakwater on the western shore...
MURRAY LAWRENCE JAYNE
