Article December 27, 2004 Issue

GOD WAS THERE

T.B.

Once when I was home alone, lugging a heavy box down to the basement, I tripped at the last step and went sprawling. One leg twisted painfully. I couldn't get up. No one was anywhere near, and a telephone was out of reach. It looked as if I was dangerously stuck, and the pain was considerable.

My first reaction was to call out in pain. My second was a wish that my wife would get home. But the third reaction was the one I needed. It was prayer, the humble effort to reach out to God who was already "home."

Prayer for me, on that occasion, was to reason from the basis of spiritual ideas found in Science and Health. At first I repeated words that I knew by heart from "the scientific statement of being" on page 468 of the book: "All is infinite Mind [God] and its infinite manifestation...."

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