Out of a heart filled with gratitude I wish to share with others a healing I had in Christian Science. During World War II it seemed right for me to do extra professional work. One year, after teaching in a summer school of arts, I found myself very eager for a vacation in the mountains. Having complied with our Government's request that we buy war bonds, I had no extra money. Also civilians had been requested not to travel for pleasure.
After doing some earnest thinking on the subject I was led to offer my services at a large resort in the mountains where there was a beautiful lake I had never seen. I was accepted and left eagerly for my new experience. Upon my arrival I was immediately put to work in the pantry. The work was new and strange; there seemed many hazards to overcome. I repeated over and over, "Whatever it is your duty to do, you can do without harm to yourself" (Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, p. 385). We learn in Christian Science that gratitude is healing; I found it protective also. I was so very happy to be in such a beautiful place that I was not afraid.
At the close of seven weeks, just before I was to return home, I was given the task of cleaning the inside of some large built-in refrigerators. At first I was indignant, as there were men working in the same department and it seemed the heavy work should have been given to one of them. However, I dutifully went to work and soon lost my feeling of resentment in bringing about cleanliness and order. In trying to reach the back of one of the refrigerators I placed the fingers of one hand in the hinge crack of an adjoining door that had been left open. A fellow worker, not realizing this, shut the door. The sense of pain caused me to scream aloud, but I declared mentally that I did not have to have the resident physician. I covered my hand and refused to allow anybody to see it. Knowing it was my privilege to depend upon God through my own mental work, as there was no time to call a practitioner, I realized that there can be no accident in divine Mind and that God's child cannot be harmed.
