While my husband and I were vacationing, I walked up some wooden steps from our beach. Unknown to us, yellow jackets had built a nest beneath the steps, and my footsteps disturbed the nest. As I reached the top, my legs were severely stung. I could hardly walk, but I was able to reach the cottage and lie down on the bed.
A Christian Science practitioner was called for help. Her first words were: "Jesus said, 'Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house'" (Matt. 9: 6). Since it was difficult to read lying down, with some help from my husband I got up into a chair and turned to page 393 in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. There the statement is made, "Have no fear that matter can ache, swell, and be inflamed as the result of a law of any kind, when it is self-evident that matter can have no pain nor inflammation." I read on for about an hour, at the end of which time I found I was hungry and decided to prepare something to eat. I got up out of the chair and found that I could walk. The pain had all gone and by the next day the swelling and stiffness also had disappeared.
For this healing and the manifestation of God's care I am very grateful.
