In an article in an early issue of the Sentinel, Mary Baker Eddy wrote, “Beloved Christian Scientists, keep your minds so filled with Truth and Love, that sin, disease, and death cannot enter them. It is plain that nothing can be added to the mind already full. There is no door through which evil can enter, and no space for evil to fill in a mind filled with goodness” (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 210).

I had an opportunity on two separate occasions, years apart, to see the power of these ideas demonstrated almost instantaneously. The first took place around one in the morning. I was pacing the floor in agony with a headache. I had struggled with headaches periodically. I called a Christian Science practitioner for prayerful help. I poured out my concerns about a student in the elementary school class I taught who seemed to be in desperate circumstances. 

The practitioner addressed each one of my concerns with a spiritual truth. I clung to each truth with all my heart. She continued to comfort and reassure me with healing ideas for a few minutes more. Then she abruptly said, “You are healed, are you not?” I gasped in amazement, for there was no more pain. I had been so absorbed in thinking about God and His care for each of His children that I had become completely unaware of my body. My thought had become full of divine Truth and Love—no room for pain. A comforting peace washed over me, and regarding the student, I knew that God would reveal the necessary steps forward to everyone concerned. This did, in fact, happen. A beautiful plan for meeting this little girl’s needs unfolded very soon afterward and was put into action.