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One night I woke up at...

From the December 1993 issue of The Christian Science Journal


One night I woke up at 3 a.m with symptoms of the flu. I began to pray, using the ideas found in an article from one of the Christian Science magazines which discussed the exactness and the completeness of man's reflection of God. I knew that as a child of God I was the perfect expression of my divine source. I was complete and reflected all the good that comes from God. Therefore my consciousness was filled by God; I could not reflect anything that was not of God.

Then I began to pray the Lord's Prayer. When it came to my thought that there was someone I had negative feelings about, I prayed to see that person as a child of God, who had the same Father I did and who reflected from God the same exactness and completeness that I claimed for myself. When I also became aware that other people I knew had experienced the flu, I prayed to know they too were complete and perfect in the consciousness of God.

I felt the warmth of God's presence; I was healed, and grateful for it. Looking at the clock, I saw it was only half an hour before I needed to get up. Immediately I claimed that God, not sleep, was my source of strength and power.

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