I WAS ANTICIPATING my second day of Primary class instruciton, where I was learning from a Christian Science teacher about how to heal through prayer. That morning before class, I had an opportunity to put what I was learning to use.
It was Sunday, and as I was preparing breakfast before church and then class, I inadvertently rested my hand on the back burner of the stove, which I hadn't realized was hot. In extreme pain, I pulled away immediately. But my first thought was, "There is no pain in Truth, and no truth in pain ...," a phrase from the textbook we'd been using in class—Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 113). This reminded me that divine Truth, or God Himself, doesn't experience pain, and that pain is nowhere to be found in God. And I knew that as an expression of Truth, I couldn't feel pain either. That because creation is totally spiritual—since my Creator is Spirit—then the whole concept that matter has any sensation had to be false.
I admit, though, that there appeared to be evidence to the contrary at that particular moment. My hand was still very red, the skin felt hard, and painful blisters were beginning to form. But I stuck to these ideas; I knew they would bring relief.
