About three years ago, I was healed of injuries to my hip and shoulder that were caused by a fall on an icy driveway. After the fall, I was unable to move my arm easily or sleep on my right side.
As I prayed for healing, I was led to study the Ten Commandments and ponder how each one represented a fundamental truth about myself. In taking this approach, I was inspired by a sentence from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. In that sentence, she connects one of the images from the Bible’s book of Revelation, the great red dragon, with the Ten Commandments. She writes that the dragon’s ten horns “typify the belief that matter has power of its own, and that by means of an evil mind in matter the Ten Commandments can be broken” (p. 563).
One day I noted that I often brooded about problems and was angry with people I associated with them. In particular, I often ruminated on the disappointing outcome of a presentation I had made to a city board on behalf of my branch church. The board’s decision was blocking our efforts to redevelop our church building in a way that we felt would better serve the public.
