A COUPLE OF WINTERS ago, my brother, Mark, and I went out to Colorado to snowboard in the beautiful Rocky Mountains. On the first day there, we joined some friends in trying to do tricks over a little snow jump. On my first try going over the jump, I lost control and landed hard on my tailbone. After several minutes in pain on the ground, I was helped up and accompanied to the room where I was staying. My brother was concerned and asked if he could help me or get me anything. I told him I just needed some time alone.
As I lay there, I thought, The truths you need in Christian Science are right at hand. Get as quiet as you can and silence the report of the material senses that's screaming at you right now. I began to pray, knowing that I could mentally challenge the sense of accident and pain dominating my thoughts. Mary Baker Eddy wrote, "When you silence the witness against your plea, you destroy the evidence, for the disease disappears" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 417). I realized that this was exactly what I needed to do.
I had brought along my Science and Health, and I opened it to my favorite chapter, "Footsteps of Truth." As I began reading, I realized that the number of pages I read was irrelevant, but what I needed to do was to claim every single nourishing statement of truth that these pages contained as absolutely true and part of my complete nature as divine Love's uninjured child.
