It wasn't too long ago that automobile tires were easily punctured by sharp objects, often resulting in mishaps and inconvenience. When the automobile tire industry invented a puncture resistant tire, it revolutionized the manufacturing of tires.
People often feel as if they have been "punctured" because of the effects of someone's sharp tongue or cutting remarks. Some office workers are reluctant to converse with fellow employees for fear of being mentally wounded by criticism, or "stabbed in the back." Have we accepted and repeated the thought that someone at the office, at home, or at school can get under our skin or needle us? All these colloquial references to the way others affect us stem from the belief that man is a mortal who can be pierced or deflated by others' thoughts or actions. Mortal mind is self-contradictory', believing that matter is both damaging and curative.
In Christian Science we learn to understand that God hasn't made billions of conflicting mortals; He has made His children spiritual, related harmoniously to Him and therefore in harmony with each other. The spiritual man has been created by God, in His likeness, and therefore man is whole. God is Spirit, and His substance, reflected in spiritual man and spiritual universe, cannot be wounded, injured, or drilled.
