ON THE RIGHT TRACK

BY LIZZIE WITNEY

One afternoon a year ago, during an athletic class in school, my best friend Sophie and I were running around the track. Sophie told me that she had a really bad headache. She knew that I was a Christian Scientist and that I prayed to find healing when I had problems. We'd talked together before about some healings I'd had when I was younger.

Since Sophie had no medicine with her, she asked me—kind of half-jokingly at first—if I could pray for her. I said that I would, and started to pray silently. But she really wanted to know what I was thinking about, and asked me to speak aloud.

Immediately, I remembered a few ideas I'd learned about in the Christian Science Sunday School. In my Sunday School class, we often talked about how we are always in the presence of an all-good God who takes care of us and keeps us safe and well. Mary Baker Eddy said in Science and Health, "Because Truth is omnipotent in goodness, error, Truth's opposite, has no might" (p. 367). Truth is a name for God. I shared with her that the pain she was feeling was an "error," a mistake about her true identity as God's reflection. She didn't have to accept the pain, because it wasn't from God.

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