"In him we live, and move, and have our being" (Acts 17:28). These words of Paul's in the Bible were a source of comfort to my wife about two years ago when she was informed I had been critically injured in an automobile accident. I was on patrol duty as a member of a law enforcement agency, and my car was hit broadside by a pickup truck directly in the area of the driver's door. I was not expected to live to reach the hospital.
I was unconscious and was taken to the emergency room of the largest hospital in the city. In the meantime my wife was notified and brought to the hospital. She said that upon learning of my condition she reached out to God for the strength to meet this situation. Almost immediately there also came to her these words of Paul's when he healed Eutychus, who after he had fallen from a high window was taken up dead: "Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him" (Acts 20: 10).
Upon learning the extent of the injuries she telephoned our teacher in Christian Science in a nearby city, and prayerful work for me was begun immediately. As practitioner on the case, our teacher assured my wife that regardless of the material laws voiced, "nothing inharmonious can enter being, for Life is God" (Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, p. 228); Also "the scientific statement of being" was of great help to my wife. It begins (ibid., p. 468): "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all." These strengthening truths were truly a staff for my wife to lean on during the testing time that followed.
