As I was heading down the front steps of my house one morning, I suddenly felt a sharp pinch on my arm. I brushed at it with my other hand and caught a glimpse of a bee flying away. I didn’t look at the sting, to avoid impressing on my mind an image of symptoms commonly associated with bee stings, but it was starting to throb, and it felt as if it was swelling and would likely be turning red. 

I hopped in the car and prayed diligently on my entire thirty-minute drive to work. When I parked the car and remembered what had inspired my specific prayer that morning, I did look at my arm. There was no bump, redness, or swelling, and I felt no pain. It was a complete healing.  

I immediately took note of how I had prayed. My prayer had started, as I had learned to do in Christian Science, with God. I declared God’s omnipotence, completeness, and goodness, and affirmed that as God’s child I could express and experience only qualities of God. Anything unlike God, such as pain, disfigurement, resentment, or frustration, is untrue because it has no place in God’s allness and goodness.