One morning while planting flowers in my garden, I suddenly began to feel severe discomfort and pain. As I rose, with the full intention of going into our home to pray, these words came to me: “Wait, and love more for every hate, and fear / No ill,—since God is good, and loss is gain” (Poems, p. 4). Those familiar with Mary Baker Eddy’s writings know they come from a poem she wrote called “The Mother’s Evening Prayer,” one most Christian Scientists know by memory.
Within minutes of the dawning in thought of this powerful healing message, I was healed. The symptoms, which had seemed so overwhelming, completely dissolved. I felt sweetly embraced in God’s love. The effect of the Comforter, the divine Science that came through so beautifully to me in the verses of Mrs. Eddy’s poem, illumined my thought with God’s goodness. All that I could see, know, or feel was divine Love’s presence. With this realization I resumed planting flowers, rejoicing in God’s gentle care for me.
Not only was I immediately healed of the physical distress, but a misunderstanding with a neighbor was beautifully resolved within just a few hours. I was conscious of the fact that the Christly tone of Mrs. Eddy’s writings conveys the spiritual import and immediacy of God’s power and presence, illuminating the Bible’s spiritual message to humanity.
