On one of the first days of spring last year, I was out on my usual walk in my neighborhood and tripped on a crack in the sidewalk. I fell forward, hitting my forehead, and was bleeding. I knew I had to get up and go into my condominium. I saw no one who could help me stand and get moving, but as I prayed to God and recognized that His strength was there, I was able to get to my feet. 

As I went into my building, I calmed down so that I could hear what God was telling me. I felt He was saying that I was not a mortal needing healing; I was a child of God. 

In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy explains, “This mortal seeming is temporal; it never merges into immortal being, but finally disappears, and immortal man, spiritual and eternal, is found to be the real man” (p. 190).