Words can never express the gratitude which my husband and I felt when, through complete reliance on Christian Science, our teen-age daughter was quickly healed of a fractured jaw.
Three years ago on the day before Thanksgiving I was called by a school official who stated that our daughter had fainted and had had a severe fall. While driving to get her, I allowed nothing but thoughts and declarations of Truth and Love to enter my consciousness. I knew my concern was only a normal reaction a mother would naturally have for her child; this understanding kept me from confusing concern with fear. Previously a practitioner had pointed out to me that a mother must not condemn herself for this feeling of concern; she explained that this was not at all the same as nontrusting fear. Having this understanding helped me very much in this case.
I knew clearly that as a reflection of God, Mind, and as an idea in Mind, this child of God had never actually lost consciousness, for the reflection never experiences anything other than what the original experiences. God, the origin, had never lost consciousness; neither, then, had His reflection. Fainting, which is only a belief that mortal mind can be at times conscious and at other times unconscious— can come and go—is unknown to God; and since this child had no mortal mind but manifested the one changeless divine Mind, she could not be harmed by this mistaken belief, or lie, of mind in matter. This realization resulted in my seeing the complete unreality of the lie.
