Some years ago, my husband and I took a trip to another country. The first day of our sightseeing, I expressed to our guide a desire to do some climbing. Our guide stoutly objected to this particular climb we had in mind, contending it was much too strenuous for us. However, we did it anyway.
That evening at our hotel, my husband and I ordered the same thing for dinner. The next morning, about five o'clock, I woke with symptoms of a severe case of dysentery. About nine o'clock that morning, we were to leave with our guide on a hundred-mile trip. I felt so ill, it seemed absolutely impossible for me to take this trip. However, I thought it was very important to take a stand for healing by going on the trip and not letting this false belief hinder our activities. When the guide saw me, he looked distressed and remarked that I looked very ill. But I assured him that I could make the trip. On the way, he told us that we were the only tourists who had kept their commitment to go sightseeing with him after having made that climb the day before. He added, "Yesterday, I felt sure you would not be able to go today." He was pleased we had been able to come.
During the long trip we made only one stop. All along the way, my husband and I prayed silently, constantly. Again and again I recalled Mrs. Eddy's powerful statement in the Christian Science textbook (Science and Health, p. 167): "Only through radical reliance on Truth can scientific healing power be realized." This statement of truth was very reassuring, and God's law did sustain me.
