In the summer of 2019 I was traveling with my daughter and a group of friends who were also Christian Scientists. We were sightseeing for the day and had taken a ferry from Helsinki across the Gulf of Finland to a beautiful medieval town in Estonia. As we were walking back to the ferry at the end of the day, I suddenly fell on the pavement and landed very hard on my face.

When I became conscious of what had happened, the first thought that occurred to me was “Declare that you are not hurt.” These words are from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, where she explains how to go about praying if you experience an accident, instructing, “Declare that you are not hurt and understand the reason why . . .” (p. 397). 

Immediately I mentally declared, “I am not hurt.” The very next thought that came to me was “Why are you not hurt?” I answered again, mentally, “Because I am spiritual.” I knew that these two angel messages were from God and that they enabled me to refute and reverse the physical evidence of injury.