NOT LONG AGO I jumped out of an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) and injured my ankle. By the next morning, I could barely walk.

I tried to pray through the pain, but I didn’t get very far. A bit later that morning, though, an interesting thing happened. As I was walking along very slowly, I suddenly thought about this idea from Mary Baker Eddy’s book on prayer and healing, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: “A spiritual idea has not a single element of error, and this truth removes properly whatever is offensive” (p. 463). I considered this sentence for about three steps, and the pain stopped. 

I was happily surprised by that. Even though the pain returned a few minutes later, I knew that I was on to something, and I kept thinking. A spiritual idea is the product of God’s creative action. God is our creator, but He isn’t a physical entity; God is Spirit, without any physicality. So, God produces not physical humans, but spiritual manifestations of Himself, or ideas—ideas that are adeptly designed to show forth His divine nature.