During my first month in law school, I woke up one morning to find a terrible rash covering my body. It was very difficult to perform even the most basic daily functions, including walking around.
My first response was to try and figure out what had caused it. I had had difficulties with poison ivy in the past, so this seemed a logical explanation. But I couldn't have gotten poison ivy when I had spent most of the last month in an urban environment. My next response was to feel sorry for myself. I felt like I had so many responsibilities to take care of, and the last thing I needed was to be incapacitated by this problem. Since I'm used to relying on prayer for healing, I decided to ask a Christian Science practitioner to pray with me.
I'd been feeling unsettled about a number of things in my life, and I remember saying to him that I felt as though the condition on my body was tangible evidence of this fear. He said we could pray to get rid of all fear, and we did.
