"God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work." So wrote Paul in II Corinthians (9:8), and the truth of his words has been proved to me many times in my own experience.
My childhood was one of continuous invalidism—bondage to illness, limitation of activities, and submission to fears expressed by those around me. For a long time I searched for an answer to this problem and felt certain it might be found through prayer. After reading about various denominations, I began to attend different churches, seeking the God-given liberty to which I felt I was entitled. My first visit to a Christian Science practitioner so firmly convinced me that I had found the truth that never since that time have I been tempted to turn from it. Nor has the truth once failed to meet my every need when correctly and wholeheartedly applied.
An experience which took place about two years ago taught me the value of keeping one's thoughts in line with divine Principle. With a sense of burdened anticipation of the work to be accomplished that day, I undertook my tasks without joy and gratitude. Instead of rejoicing and praising God for His countless blessings, my thoughts were those of self-pity, self-justification, and the like. While dressing hurriedly to be on time for an appointment, I struck my foot against the bed and broke a toe. The instant this occurred, I knew that had I been concentrating upon the greatness of God and the glories of His creation instead of upon the unlovely thoughts which had consumed my consciousness, there would have been no such discordant experience. All that day I was occupied with replacing burden with joy, self-pity with gratitude, self-justification with compassion, and resentment with hymns of praise. I was able to walk before the day was ended and was able to fulfill all necessary work from that day on. The healing was rapid and permanent.
