ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO, I woke one morning feeling cold all over—something I'd never experienced before. As prayer in Christian Science has healed me many times, I began to pray with the truth that we are all created by God in His image and likeness. I mentally declared that as God is Spirit and I reflect Spirit, my true being must also be spiritual. I further reasoned that because God is immortal and is not deteriorated by sickness or other causes that ultimately lead to death, then these facts of being had to be true for me too. During the day I prayed frequently to affirm these truths.
However, when I woke the next morning, I felt even more cold and wobbly, like a jellyfish in arctic waters! In addition to reminding myself how I'd prayed about God's creation and my spiritual identity, I also thought about the concepts put forth in "the scientific statement of being," which begins, "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter" (Science and Health, p. 468). Matter, the opposite of Spirit, has no intelligence to cause or communicate the condition of my health, so the material body couldn't tell me whether I was cold or not. I discerned that Mind alone determines my well-being and is the source of only good thoughts, never the source of thoughts about disease or ailments.
That evening, when I had a quiet time to pray further, I wondered why I hadn't succeeded in throwing off the chills, knowing as I did that God's infinite handiwork includes nothing that can cause discomfort or harm.
