For all the blessings I have received through Christian Science I am deeply and inexpressibly grateful. I feel I have much to be thankful for besides physical healings. I am grateful for the knowledge I have gained about God and the real man.
During the so-called depression, all our material possessions were swept away. My husband became ill and despondent; I felt I had nothing to live for and little for which to be grateful, and was so miserable that I often thought of suicide. Then I began the study of Christian Science. My whole outlook on life changed, and I feel that I live in a different world now. I have learned to some extent what real life and substance are, and what the real man is.
I want to tell of one outstanding experience. About three years ago, while on my way to work, I fell on a slippery road. I got up and found I could not walk, because my hip seemed to be injured; I was also suffering great pain. A passing car picked me up and took me to my destination. Upon arrival I called a Christian Science practitioner and asked for a treatment. The practitioner at once referred me to the following statement from the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy (p.424): "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. Under divine Providence there can be no accidents, since there is no room for imperfection in perfection."
