It's important to pray for others

Dee Mahuvawalla

One morning, when I was working as a nurse at a Christian Science care facility in Sydney, I was helping serve breakfast and went to remove the jam container from the industrial-sized fridge. In doing this, I accidentally caught my finger in the fan blades above the topmost shelf of the fridge. Although there was no bleeding, I felt quite a shock to my system and numbness in my finger. Immediately, I thought to myself, "Accidents are unknown to God. ..." (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 424). I quietly withdrew from the kitchen to the staff room and began to pray.

I had been praying for the world's people.

It was soon very clear to me that I needed to pray not just about this injury, but for everyone in the world. I realized very clearly that all the sons and daughters of God were protected then, and there, and always, in His loving care—never exposed to any dangerous situation, however bad things may appear to be, and never helpless or unguarded.

As I was thinking along these lines, the pain and numbness I had been feeling in my finger just vanished. I was so grateful! And I went on and served breakfast.

Later that evening, I telephoned my daughter, who lived in Western Australia, and told her how I had prayed that morning and had had this healing. She told me that at the exact time I had been praying for the world's people, her husband had been protected when he was taking a shower—something we attributed to my prayer.

Because a short circuit had developed in the hot water system, my son-in-law had become "stuck" to the showerhead by the electric current. Just at that time, my daughter had happened to be near the meter box outside their house, where the booster switch was installed. She heard her husband screaming for her to turn off the booster switch, and did so right away. Though a little shaken, my son-in-law was unhurt. We all were so grateful for the fact that our prayers reach beyond our immediate lives to bless other people. And we all saw how important it is to pray for everyone in the world, and not just for ourselves.

Dee Mahuvawalla
Bibra Lake, Western Australia Australia

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