While serving in the army in Germany during the 1950s, I was in a small unit stationed near a village in the Taunus mountains. We were all linguists, assigned to interrogate captured prisoners in case of war. Since there were no hostilities at the time, we had very little to do. As young men with time on our hands, we decided to see how fast our jeeps could go by racing them along the country roads.
One day I took a sharp corner much too fast and the jeep left the ground, did a half roil, and came down on its top. When I felt this happening, I immediately reached out to God for help. The words, "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need" came to thought. They are from Mary Baker Eddy's book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (p. 494). I didn't have time to think through the whole sentence, but the idea behind it was all I needed. For a short time I lost all awareness of sight and sound, and felt as though I were floating on a large, gray pillow.
The next thing I knew, my passenger and I were sitting on the canvas top in the back part of the jeep. In the two or three seconds it took the jeep to roll over, we were both moved from the front seat to the small shelf–like area in the back while the jeep rotated around us. We were sitting upright and unhurt. A thin metal tube that held the canvas top had not collapsed, and it supported the overturned jeep above us.
