Article July 1, 1996 Issue

Don't be befogged, be firm!

Judith Hardy Olson

From a plane at night it's not hard to spot New York City, ablaze with lights. Usually. But this night as we landed at La Guardia Airport, the fog was so dense you'd swear the Sahara lay below. Not a single light in sight until a split second before touchdown. Yet I don't think any of us on board doubted the pilot's assurance "This is New York—you just can't see it!" I certainly wasn't afraid we were in the wrong place.

Little did I know then how helpful this experience would be to me. A few months after this incident, I injured my eye. It became infected and so painful I couldn't read or sleep.

"Well, I can think, so I can pray," I acknowledged. "Certainly God—the God I've come to know from studying my Bible and Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy—isn't helpless. God can, will, heal me." I took to heart His promise in the Bible "I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds" (Jer. 30:17).

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