Deep cut healed, peace gained
One Saturday, as I was slicing a bagel, I deeply cut my thumb, and it started to bleed profusely.
I was already studying the next week’s Bible Lesson from the Christian Science Quarterly. The topic was “Ancient and Modern Necromancy, alias Mesmerism and Hypnotism, Denounced,” and I remembered these statements from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: “The wrong thought should be arrested before it has a chance to manifest itself” and “The maximum of good is the infinite God and His idea, the All-in-all” (pp. 452, 103).
These ideas allayed my fear of the situation and allowed me to pause for a moment. After cleansing and covering the wound, I returned to my job. Still, it was a pesky problem, as every task I needed to do with my hands seemed to be affected.
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