During a family ski trip I took a pretty hard fall, twisting my knee. I found I could not even stand. My sister was with me, and I asked her to get the ski patrol to help me down the mountain. While I waited for them to return, all I could do was grip the snow, knowing God would never leave me helpless. The pain made me need to fight for consciousness. By the time the rescue crew arrived, I was calm and clear that with God all was well. I remember feeling comforted by repeating "the scientific statement of being" found in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
In the ski patrol emergency room I was able to remain calm, and even happy. I told them that I did not want to see a doctor, and that I would wait for my parents to pick me up. I realized that here was an opportunity for healing, and found myself thinking clearly enough to pray and give myself Christian Science treatment. By this I mean I prayed to know that God made me perfect; that since God does not know evil or accidents, none of God's children, including anyone in that emergency room, could be touched by error. I rejected the fear that I might pass out and the evidence that physical pain was real. I replaced those thoughts with affirmations that the one Mind, God, is continuously conscious of His perfect child. I reasoned that if God is always conscious of me, and caring for me, I could never lose consciousness. I also reasoned that God is good, and thus could never create pain.
Soon my parents arrived. I looked around and saw that the once-full emergency room was completely empty after only about twenty minutes. To me this was evidence that God was taking care of all His children.
