“Know thyself, and God will supply the wisdom and the occasion for a victory over evil” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 571). These words were a lifeline to me throughout a recent healing when I was challenged to get to know myself much more clearly as God knows me. 

I live at a Christian Science residential community in San Francisco. On February 21 of this year, San Francisco experienced a fierce wind that some news services reported as exceeding eighty miles per hour. That day, I had gone out for lunch with fellow residents at an oceanside restaurant. As I walked toward a wide porch near the restaurant’s entrance, a wind gust lifted me off my feet and tossed me in the air before dropping me hard against a curb and onto the concrete parking lot. 

As shocking as this was, I was immediately comforted by a familiar Bible verse that came to me: “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32). What “the truth” meant to me in this instance was that we can never fall out of God’s care and that my relation to God could not be broken.