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No trace of injury

From the February 2013 issue of The Christian Science Journal

Originally written in Portuguese, this article appeared in the December 2012 Portuguese, French, German, and Spanish editions of The Herald of Christian Science.


One day, 15 years ago, while I was working as a seamstress at a friend’s house, the sewing machine’s threaded needle was driven into my left thumbnail, catching my finger under the machine’s darning foot. The puncture was not very deep, but I felt a stabbing pain. I started sweating and losing my strength, as I was unable to remove the needle from the nail. My workmate seemed more perplexed than I, but after a few tries, she was able to turn the machine wheel, which pulled the needle upward and released my finger.

I left the room to pray, but I also called a Christian Science practitioner and asked her to support me through prayer.

The practitioner told me to be calm and declared that in divine reality all was well. In fact, as Mary Baker Eddy wrote in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: “When an accident happens, you think or exclaim, ‘I am hurt!’ Your thought is more powerful than your words, more powerful than the accident itself, to make the injury real.

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