I have a great desire to express my love and gratitude to God, and to Mary Baker Eddy for providing Christian Science in a comprehensible form to this age. I've experienced so many proofs of what an enlightened understanding of man's relationship to God brings. My dear mother found this religion shortly after I was born. Wholeheartedly embracing its teachings enriched her life, as it has enriched mine. I could literally fill pages with the wonderful evidences of God's tender care. However, I'll content myself with sharing this recent example.
I could no
more fall away
from God than
a B could fall
out of the
alphabet.
As I was coming home from work one afternoon, I hurried up some cement steps in our yard, eager to review the readings I had prepared as First Reader of my branch church, for the Wednesday testimony meeting to be held that evening. I suddenly felt myself pitch forward and fall, striking my head with great force. Even as I was going down I vehemently declared, "No! No!" certain that I could never fall out of God's care. I managed to get up, and my first thought was, "Nothing will keep me from church tonight." I was able to get into the house and begin to commune verbally with my Father Mother God. I knew that my true being is wholly spiritual, not a mixture of Spirit and matter. That I was eternally linked to Mind, God, and as His perfect idea, I could no more fall away from Him than a B could fall out of the alphabet. I denied that I could ever be the victim of chance or accident in any form. I recalled what Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health: "When an accident happens, you think or exclaim, 'I am hurt!' Your thought is more powerful than your words, more powerful than the accident itself, to make the injury real.
