As I was stepping down from my backdoor to the back steps, I twisted my ankle and was in a lot of pain. Because I have had so many healings in Christian Science, I immediately turned to God in prayer and listened to know how to handle this situation.

I was able to get inside, and the first idea that came was to open Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy to page 397, which deals with accidents. As I read, these words stood out: “When an accident happens, you think or exclaim, ‘I am hurt!’ Your thought is more powerful than your words, more powerful than the accident itself, to make the injury real. 

“Now reverse the process. Declare that you are not hurt and understand the reason why, and you will find the ensuing good effects to be in exact proportion to your disbelief in physics, and your fidelity to divine metaphysics, confidence in God as All, which the Scriptures declare Him to be.”