I would like to express gratitude for a quick healing. I was grilling hamburgers for friends one evening and went outside to turn the burgers over. There was no light where the grill was, and the grill was closer than I realized. When I went to open the grill, instead of touching the handle, my outstretched hand landed directly on top of the grill. 

The temperature of the grill was 550 degrees Fahrenheit (288 degrees Celsius), and I felt intense pain from the burn. I thought about “the scientific statement of being” from the Christian Science textbook, which begins: “There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 468). Holding to the spiritual fact that matter cannot think or feel, I was able to quickly close my hand and turn the burgers with my other hand. 

I was confident that I could rely solely on God’s goodness for healing. Focusing on the material sensation would attribute to the burn both power and the ability to hurt me. Instead, I acknowledged that I am God’s child, perfect and spiritual, and that nothing can touch me except God’s love.