It is with much gratitude that I recount this experience. Some time ago I was trying to open an old wardrobe when a small piece of the plywood covering the wardrobe door went into my fingernail. I tried to take the splinter out, but the more I tried, the deeper it sank into my nail. Family members were very sympathetic, and they tried to give me all sorts of advice.
By evening time the finger had started throbbing. It was so painful that sleep eluded me. All sorts of suggestions started coming to my thoughts, and I became scared. But I also thought about praying. I was new in Christian Science and didn’t have much understanding of it, but I held on to truths that I had learned from my study of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. I prayed with the Lord’s Prayer and Psalm 91, and with “the scientific statement of being” in Science and Health (see p. 468). I also declared my perfection in God, and I declared God as my Life, as my health.
I felt lifted up, and sometime after midnight the thought came to me: “What can this small piece of wood do to your life? Your life is in God.” After that, I soon drifted off to sleep and slept so peacefully.
