When I was a little girl, a large urn filled with boiling liquid was accidentally dropped on me. I was severely scalded from my forehead to my waist. The wounds healed quickly, but as a result of the burns there were some conspicuous, uncomely scars left on my body. It was predicted that the scars would be permanent.
Some years later, I found Mrs. Eddy's book Science and Health. Deeply interested in its spiritual logic, I studied and pondered it consistently and devotedly, without expecting healing. Three or four years after I had begun this study, I discovered that all vestiges of the burns had disappeared.
Because man is immortal—spiritual—he cannot be burned, injured, bruised, or wounded. And proportionately as we understand God, and man's status as His expression, we demonstrate our imperishable and indestructible perfect identity— man's complete, beautiful selfhood.
