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I have had many healings in Christian Science of athletic injuries
I have had many healings in Christian Science of athletic injuries. Most healings came quickly when gratitude and love filled my thought. One day, for example, while cross-country skiing, I seemed to pull a groin muscle. I was initially tempted to feel resentful. But I was reminded to express gratitude for the beauties revealed by the day, including the spiritual qualities of those sharing the trail.
Gratitude opens our thought to God's goodness at hand and thus prepares us to accept the spiritual facts that will correct a difficulty, or misperception of reality. We can then see more clearly our spiritual nature as the expression of God, good, moving in accord with God's unchanging law. And there could never be a penalty in God's law for expressing good.
Mary Baker Eddy writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, "We cannot in reality suffer from breaking anything except a moral or spiritual law" (p. 381). Thus gratitude was what enabled me to turn the situation around. I decided to continue, and managed to ski with little pain. I continued to pray, and when I ran ten miles without the slightest pain six days later, I knew the healing was complete.
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July 8, 1996 issue
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Spirituality and sports
Mark Swinney
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World friendship and the Olympic Games
Geraldine Schiering
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Key to healing: seeing the spiritual fact
Marvin J. Charwat
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Being free from racial discrimination
Dorothy Dipuo Maubane
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God's man
William B. Schlismann
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True victory
Lauralyn Sparrowhawk
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Dear Sentinel
Caitlin Williams
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Psalm 23: a paraphrase
Leslie Karst Vasquez
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Summer Olympics 1996—the real victory
by Kim Shippey
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How a city survives—lessons from Oklahoma City
Mary Metzner Trammell
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I think that I was searching for God my whole life, even though...
Elena Plotnikova
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As a lifelong Christian Scientist, I have depended upon God's...
Betty Wallace Robinett
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One morning as I stepped from bed, pain shot through my...
Lacy Bell Richter