One day as I worked to overcome a persistent sense of weariness, I called for help from a Christian Science practitioner. As I was calling, I was experiencing a cessation of control over my whole left side, and as I tried to talk, my words were jumbled. I tried to lift a simple cup of a hot drink, but could not grip it.
In a brief time, maybe a few minutes, I felt as if I were watching from somewhere outside—but with disbelief and instant rejection of the picture. The facial distortion I saw in a nearby mirror was not me—the “me” that I knew and worked to express as a spiritual idea. The “me” that I knew as an active spiritual identity was coordinated, symmetrical, effective. The “me” that I knew had been shepherded for so long by God—and was ever obedient to a practiced, proven truth:
“Wisdom in human action begins with what is nearest right under the circumstances, and thence achieves the absolute” (Mary Baker Eddy, Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896, p. 288).
While I struggled to articulate to the practitioner what was happening, I kept mentally rejecting the symptoms. Recalling a rapid Christian Science healing of a similar physical condition years earlier, I was not afraid. Wonderful statements from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, came to me such as “In God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me” (Ps. 56:4). “Resist evil—error of every sort—and it will flee from you” (Science and Health, p. 406).
