While skiing one winter day, I broke my wrist. I felt this was an opportunity for me to prove how much I understood about Christian Science. But after three days of prayer, and with the help of a Christian Science practitioner, there was no improvement in the wrist. During the night I woke, hearing loudly and clearly in thought, "Pride ruled my will...." which I vaguely recognized as from a hymn in the Christian Science Hymnal (No. 169). I was startled. I well knew that pride and human will are not qualities of God and that they impede healing. I had been rebelling at the thought of having the bone set, but after further prayer I decided it was right in this situation to have that done.
I was informed that, because of the long delay, I would experience intense pain for two days and nights. I denied this with the understanding that I did not for any reason have to suffer, because God created no law of suffering for man. I did not fill the prescription I'd been given for a painkiller, knowing that only sin causes suffering, and that I had not sinned. Christ Jesus overruled material laws of sin and suffering through the power of God, the same power on which I was relying.
With the continuing help of the Christian Science practitioner, I did not have even the slightest indication of the predicted pain. Then I dismissed the practitioner.
