Article October 3, 2011 Issue

Just turn on the light!

By Kyle Borch

Mary Baker Eddy asked in Science and Health: “Are we really grateful for the good already received? Then we shall avail ourselves of the blessings we have, and thus be fitted to receive more” (p. 3). Recently, the thought came to me to express gratitude for the wonderful things I already have. I also know gratitude is necessary and important as we work toward other healings, and it also strengthens our spiritual understanding. One of my favorite hymns is Hymn No. 3 in the Christian Science Hymnal, which begins: “A grateful heart a garden is” (Ethel Wasgatt Dennis).

In March 2007, the spring of my sophomore year of high school, I was riding my bike home from track practice. I had ridden the trail many times, but as I was going down a hill, I hit something and crashed. I don’t remember how I got home, but I woke up in my bed a few hours later. I had somehow put bandages on my scrapes, and the area around my collarbone and shoulder was sore. My dad found me there, and my mom came home soon afterward. I could not answer what day it was, and I was not making much sense.

At that point, my parents said we either needed to call a Christian Science practitioner or go to an emergency room immediately. I asked my mom to call the practitioner.

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