One day I woke to find a red patch on my face, near my eye. I began to pray about this, but I became frightened when my face started to swell and my eye to close. I called a Christian Science practitioner to pray with me. During the next few days I stayed in my apartment. I asked my sister-in-law, who is a Christian Science nurse, to bring me groceries and to read to me.
When she came she noticed that I would stop and peer at myself in a mirror frequently. I had not really been aware that I was doing this. Before she read to me, my sister-in-law said that I didn't need a mirror to know my spiritual perfection as God's own likeness, which is man's true selfhood.
After she left, I thought a great deal about what she had said. When everything was going well in my life, it seemed easy to acknowledge man's true perfection, but now that the physical senses were informing me I was anything but perfect, it didn't seem so easy. In Unity of Good Mrs. Eddy writes, . . an acknowledgment of the perfection of the infinite Unseen confers a power nothing else can." With that in mind, I began to acknowledge my spiritual perfection. Instead of checking on the fluctuations of matter by staring in a mirror every few minutes, I began thinking of everything I could that would acknowledge my true perfection. Within a few days my face returned to normal and the redness disappeared.
