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Quick recovery from a fall
One evening several months ago, my pant leg caught on a kitchen drawer, and I pitched forcefully backward, hitting my head on the corner of a cabinet door before landing on the stone floor.
Because I was too stunned to speak, my husband immediately called a Christian Science practitioner for treatment, as he knew that would be my wish. He held the phone up to my ear, and the practitioner spoke to me, affirming that all being is spiritual, not material, and is untouched by matter. After a while I sat up, and the pain subsided.
I went to bed shortly after, and slept deeply. But early in the morning I needed to get up and go to the bathroom. The next thing I remember was my husband trying to get into the bathroom. I had fallen on the floor, unconscious, and was blocking the door. The symptoms of illness were intense.
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March 9, 2020 issue
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From the readers
Fay Christie, Kelly Buchanan, Maddie Cassidy
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Bringing our prayers to the threat of contagion
Kevin Graunke
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You are brave!
Amy Richmond
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A home maintained by God
Gabriela Mejía
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Making the mountain a molehill
Amy Humphries
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The true spirit of philanthropy
Ingrid Peschke
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When my friends dumped me
Jennifer Johnson
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Harmonious childbirth
Christiane Heer
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Eye trouble healed
William Ward
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Pilot’s sudden vertigo gone
Christopher Johnson
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Quick recovery from a fall
Claire Fisher
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'For flower and fruitage now are seen ...'
Photograph by Carol Lawrence
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Contagion
Mary Baker Eddy