Injured ribs healed
Last year, I was putting away dishes on a high shelf and lost my balance. I fell backward, hitting the ribs on my right side against the corner of the granite counter. The intense pain worsened over the course of the day.
I contacted a Christian Science practitioner to pray for me and kept in touch with her daily. My conversations with her reassured me that I reside in Spirit and that I am at home in the consciousness of God as divine Love, where divine Principle is guiding my every thought and action and those of everyone around me. The practitioner also encouraged me to pray with hymns from the Christian Science Hymnal, replacing the word man with my name and knowing that the true man, who is made by Spirit, God, has no age and doesn’t decline.
Helpful thoughts came to me constantly, including quotes such as “Be still, and know that I am God” (Psalms 46:10) and “The Christlike understanding of scientific being and divine healing includes a perfect Principle and idea,—perfect God and perfect man,—as the basis of thought and demonstration” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 259). To stay focused each day on this true basis of my health and wholeness, I also pondered seven synonyms for God referenced throughout Science and Health and Mrs. Eddy’s other writings: Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, and Love.
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