One day just before dinner, when I went outside on our deck, a wasp stung me on my hand. The pain was intense, but the first thing that came to me was to affirm that we were both innocent.
For several months prior to this, I had been praying daily with these words from Isaiah: “I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me” (45:5). So, it was natural for me to turn to this spiritual fact as the basis for my metaphysical treatment. I reasoned that because God is Love, there was nothing else for me or the wasp to feel or to know but God’s love. And because God is All—the only presence and the only power—there was nothing to cause harm.
Earlier in the day, I had also been praying with the thought that there is no wrong thinking going on in “infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 468). Only right thinking and acting are taking place in Mind. Based on this truth, I recognized that there are no harmful thoughts to inflame God’s manifestation, man.
