Some years ago, when I awakened one Sunday morning, I experienced great difficulty in getting out of bed because of a constant severe pain in the whole of one arm.
Much of that Sunday I spent studying Mrs. Eddy's writings and spiritualizing my thought. I also requested help for that day from a Christian Science practitioner. The following two days I managed to get to work and sit at my desk; but little was accomplished, and the pain did not abate. I earnestly studied Christian Science each day. On Wednesday I felt I could no longer stand the effort of getting to work, and so I stayed home, studying and applying Christian Science to heal the condition. However, it was still as acute as it had been on the first day, and early that evening I telephoned again to the practitioner.
Our conversation lasted less than five minutes and consisted principally of her statements about the indissoluble and eternal relationship between God and spiritual man. Many of her remarks coincided with the spiritual concepts that my study had brought out, and her restatement of them flooded my consciousness with a full realization of their meaning. It seemed that my own study had been preparing my thought to be receptive. I was so spiritually uplifted that I put the telephone receiver down with the absolute conviction that no discordant condition could continue to manifest itself in the face of these spiritual truths of the reality and perfection of my spiritual selfhood as the expression, the image and likeness, of God.
