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This time I didn't need stitches
Originally appeared on spirituality.com
Last summer, while I was dropping off my daughter at my mom’s, I caught my ankle on the bottom edge of the screen door. The pain was severe, but without looking at the wound, I silently and forcefully declared, “There is no pain in matter.”
I’d become familiar with this concept through studying Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, which makes clear that God made each of us spiritual, not material. So my declaration was affirming my spirituality and God's care for me.
Within about a minute, the pain was gone. When I looked down at my ankle, though, I was alarmed by what I saw. The cut was deep and long. On the way home, I called a Christian Science practitioner and asked her to pray with me. I don’t remember much of what she said, but I felt calm and uplifted after I hung up the phone.
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