Last spring I was on a walk with my dog and a friend, and at one point my dog moved right in front of me. To avoid stepping on her, I took a step backward off a curb, twisted my ankle, and fell to the ground. The ankle was painful, but I silently declared that I was actually God’s spiritual idea, forever intact, not made up of material body parts that could be subject to injury. 

Once at home, I could barely get my shoe off, as my foot was very swollen. I got comfortable on the couch and looked up healing ideas from the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. A few hours later, however, when I tried to stand up and walk to the kitchen, I could not put any weight on my foot.

I had a houseguest who had never heard of Christian Science before and had been asking me questions about it. He was concerned and kindly offered to pick up medicine at a pharmacy or get medical help for me. I assured him that I was praying, that I knew I was being taken care of by God, and that I had turned to this loving God for healing just about all my life. I also told him I would call a Christian Science practitioner to pray for me and was confident that I would soon be well.