I remember thinking, when I was ten, that growth was a wonderful thing. However, I was not so thrilled when I found a growth on my hand a number of years ago; it seemed to leap there overnight. That was before I had any knowledge of Christian Science. The growth was unsightly, and I feared its presence.
As I gained, through Christian Science, an understanding of the perfection of God and of man as His perfect image and likeness, it seemed unnecessary to put up with this growth any longer. A testimony in the Christian Science Sentinel mentioned this line from a hymn: "Healed is thy hardness, His love hath dissolved it."Christian Science Hymnal, No. 278. I prayed each day for a long while, thinking about that sentence and trying to discover what hardness held me in bondage.
Frankly, though, there were other things in my experience that needed immediate healing and that were more imperative; so perhaps I didn't take praying about this growth seriously enough. Still, one day it occurred to me that, good as the line from the hymn was, I was using yesterday's inspiration for today's need for healing. From then on I prayed from the Lord's Prayer, "Give us this day our daily bread."Matt. 6:11. This helped me look specifically for the inspiration of today, for what was needed now.
