It was shaping up to be a busy Saturday. Mentally running through my to-do list, I hurried through the hallway in my home and accidentally slammed my big toe into a solid oak bench. The pain was intense. The loud crack and my cry made my husband run from another room. He threw his arms around me in a big hug and said firmly, “God loves you.” He repeated it, and I nodded in agreement.

Trusting in the truth that God loves me shifted my thought from pain to divine Love. I consciously focused on God: God is the Father-Mother Love that holds me—and all—in love, comfort, and safety. I understood that nothing could break, or break through, my indestructible spiritual being. Soon the pain subsided.

A fundamental truth explained in Christian Science and that bases all spiritual reasoning and demonstration is this: “There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 468). So I reasoned that my toe doesn’t have an independent mind, nor does it function separately from the harmonious action of my true life—my only life—in Spirit, God. There is no element of me, not a single one, that could possibly be impaired, because I am wholly spiritual. By the afternoon, my toe was no longer sensitive.