One Saturday when I had an appointment to go swimming, I fell on the sidewalk in front of the pool and landed on my stomach. I stood up and briefly prayed and went swimming anyway. But at home that evening, I felt sharp, stinging pains through the whole right side of my body whenever I moved or breathed. Fear crept into my thinking—“What if . . . ? What should I do now?” 

While I was still looking for a solution, I read the article, “You don’t have to understand everything before you’re healed” by Nathan Talbot (see The Christian Science Journal, November 2001). He was addressing the following concern: “I feel I’ve discovered truth in Christian Science. But I doubt my own ability to actually prove it when it comes to healing. How much do my doubts interfere with my healing?”

In response, he says: “A child doesn’t have to understand the theory of electricity in order to turn on a light switch. You don’t have to know all about gravity in order to be held to the ground when you walk around. These are metaphors, but in much the same way, there is a law of God operating in your behalf, regardless of how much you realize about it. This is a law of Love—of God’s unending care for you.”