The foot injury that never was
My husband and I were set to go on an all-day adventure, exploring a long-distance footpath across the Netherlands. We’d been looking forward to this trip as precious time together that we’d managed to carve out of our busy schedules.
Just as we were leaving, I realized that I’d forgotten my walking socks and rushed upstairs for a pair. On the way back down, I turned my ankle, fell on the side of my foot with my whole weight, and heard an ominous crunching sound. As a wave of pain came over me, I sat down on a step to pray.
My first thought was, “This is not real. Accidents aren’t known to God”—an assurance from the Christian Science textbook by Mary Baker Eddy. Here is the full statement: “Accidents are unknown to God, or immortal Mind, and we must leave the mortal basis of belief and unite with the one Mind, in order to change the notion of chance to the proper sense of God’s unerring direction and thus bring out harmony” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 424). To me, this means that spiritual reality—the ever-presence of God’s entirely good kingdom—can’t be interrupted or replaced by anything unlike God, good.
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