One aspect of my work as a Christian Science nurse includes lifting. And not long ago I had the opportunity to prove, to a degree, how the law of God governs the ability to lift, and subsequently to understand an aspect of spiritual perfection. I had slipped on a patch of ice, fallen, and injured my wrist and arm. With treatment from a Christian Science practitioner, the pain soon left. I continued to pray for myself, being helped by this statement in Science and Health: "Accidents are unknown to God, or immortal Mind, and we must leave the mortal basis of belief and unite with the one Mind, in order to change the notion of chance to the proper sense of God's unerring direction and thus bring out harmony" (p. 424).
Within a week I returned to my work at a Christian Science nursing facility, but at first I was not able to do the lifting required with my former freedom and strength. A friend's assessment of the injury alerted me to the fact that I had been thinking that a certain amount of time needed to pass for it to heal properly. So I had been afraid to do anything that would require applying much pressure to the wrist. Once this error was seen, I was able to reason correctly by referring to the definition of time in the Glossary of Science and Health: "Time. Mortal measurements; limits, in which are summed up all human acts, thoughts, beliefs, opinions, knowledge; matter; error; that which begins before, and continues after, what is termed death, until the mortal disappears and spiritual perfection appears" (p. 595). Any limit to strength and freedom was only a belief of a supposititious mortal mind, which had no power, because God, the one Mind, is All-in-all.
It wasn't me that was doing the
lifting, but the healing strength and
presence of God. This acknowledgment
quickly brought the healing.
