On Mother’s Day, my husband and I were playing golf after church. Just short of the 11th hole, my husband was pitching onto the green and gave his ball a tremendous hit. Instead of lifting up and forward toward the hole, the ball went low and sideways at a great speed toward me. I saw it coming but was unable to get out of the way, and it hit me on my right ankle bone.
I was stunned, and crumpled to the ground in pain. As I lay there on the grass, I was saying aloud, “I cannot be separated from the all-goodness of God.” I repeated it many times to stay focused on God and block out the picture of injury and pain. After a few minutes, I began to feel the truth behind those words. I said out loud: “If I have ever believed that anything has separated me from God’s goodness, it was exactly that, a belief and not true. Therefore, there can be no consequences from such a belief. Nothing has ever wedged its way between me and God.”
This statement in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy came to mind: “Have no fear that matter can ache, swell, and be inflamed as the result of a law of any kind, when it is self-evident that matter can have no pain nor inflammation” (p. 393). No, I thought, matter is totally unintelligent and can make no conditions for me whatsoever. I also affirmed that my substance is spiritual and is therefore untouched and unhurt.
