The trend these days is to carry beverages around in aluminum or stainless steel bottles. One day when I was with my young grandson, I reached for his stainless steel water bottle to put it on the kitchen counter. Since it was summer, I had my flip-flops on, and my feet were fully exposed. The bottle was full of water, and as he was handing it to me, it fell and landed hard on my big toe.

The pain was intense. But I was grateful that my grandson had not witnessed my shock, as he had already run off.

The toe rapidly became discolored. Immediately, what came to thought were the many healings I’d had as the result of prayer, and I knew this would be no exception. The spiritual thoughts that came to me were convincing, such as the fact that this incident was, in reality, a nonevent. An accident does not conform to God’s all-powerful and ever-active law of goodness and could not possibly be legitimate. That my grandson did not witness the incident only reinforced this for me.