One day my finger got caught in a door

Ashley Manker with contributions from Paula B. Manker

One day my finger got caught in a door. My friend went to go get my mom. My mom told me, "God is everywhere, and nothing apart from Him is present or has power" (Science and Health, p. 473).

Then I realized that since there is no spot where God is not, I cannot be hurt at all. On the way home, my mom sang hymns to me from the Christian Science Hymnal, and I started to sing with her.

When we got home, I called my grandma. She is a Christian Science practitioner. She told me not to be impressed by error. When my mom unwrapped my hand, the bleeding had stopped. She couldn't tell which finger had been smashed. By the next day my finger felt fine.

Ashley Manker
Granger, Indiana

I am Ashley's mom, and her testimony is correct as she related it. Our family was at a restaurant celebrating Ashley's softball team's first-place victory, when one of her teammates ran up to me. As Ashley was saying goodbye to one of her friends, a restaurant employee had closed a door on her hand—and then had told Ashley she shouldn't have been standing in the way. We left the restaurant so that we could be quiet and pray. We began to talk about what she was learning in Sunday School.

First, we declared that there could be no accidents in God's kingdom and all of God's ideas are good and harmless. I was grateful that she did not blame either the restaurant employee or herself for what had happened. Next, we reviewed her favorite passage from Science and Health that she quotes in her testimony. Ashley learned this in Sunday School, and it is with her always. We sang hymns the rest of the way home, and by the time we reached the house, Ashley was smiling and singing with the rest of us.

My husband and I both attended Christian Science Sunday School, and are now teaching Sunday School ourselves. We are so thankful for the truths we learned—and for the truths our children are learning and practicing.

Paula B. Manker

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