For about two years I was very conscious (and felt everyone else was, too) of a blemish on my face. Adults were tactful and seldom asked about it. But children, especially my grandson, would stare at me and ask, "What's that?"
To one little girl at church I was led to say, "It's something that I want to brush away. Will you help me see that God washes away everything that is not made by Him?" Every Sunday after this she ran up to me, hugged me, and said, "I love you!" Never again did she remark about the blemish. I think that simple, childlike love and purity was a big part of the healing that was beginning in my thought. It surely was a source of help and reassurance.
Several times I asked a practitioner to pray with me, and each time I received inspiration and what Mrs. Eddy called "new views of divine goodness and love." Every time I needed fresh inspiration, it seemed a citation in the weekly Christian Science Bible Lesson was meant for me. The King James Version of the Bible says: "If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles. For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot." The New English Bible translates this: "... let no iniquity make its home with you. Then you could hold up your head without fault, a man of iron, knowing no fear." Mrs. Eddy's statement in Science and Health was also a source of reassurance to me: "A spiritual idea has not a single element of error, and this truth removes properly whatever is offensive."
