Sickness quickly disappears

Last spring, just after businesses began closing in my area in response to the global pandemic, but before the initial shelter-in-place order was given, I was working in my home office one day and began to feel unwell. The thought came to go for a walk to pray and get some fresh air. I was enjoying the beautiful, early spring day, but as I walked, I began to feel lightheaded and quite weak. I managed to make it back home again, where I called a Christian Science practitioner for prayerful treatment. 

I then opened my Bible to the ninety-first Psalm, which I had been praying with a lot at that time. When I read it this time, what particularly stood out was the 14th verse, where God says, “Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.” 

It was the last half of the verse that caught my attention. I thought, “What is the name of God, and what does it mean to know it?” Since I pray nearly every day with Mary Baker Eddy’s definition of God in the Glossary of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, it immediately came to thought: “The great I am ; the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, and eternal; Principle; Mind; Soul; Spirit; Life; Truth; Love; all substance; intelligence” (p. 587). 

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