Years ago, I would often ride my bike to a beautiful creekside picnic site in our local park to study and pray. One day I hit the brakes harder than usual, which threw me off balance, causing me to tumble down the bank and land on my back in the shallow creek. It was a short fall, but over rocks and jagged, outcropped tree roots. Feeling quite stunned, I reminded myself that omnipotent Mind governs all in harmony and does not cause accidents. I turned to God for courage and prayed.
I began by simply being grateful that the bike had not crashed down on top of me. Then I silently repeated the Lord’s Prayer and Mary Baker Eddy’s spiritual interpretation of it in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (see pp. 16–17). I knew that because God is always upholding and protecting His children, I could never fall out of His loving care. I declared that I could not be tempted to believe that material evidence is valid or could have any effect on my spiritual perfection as God’s child. At that moment, I tangibly felt God’s loving, supporting presence, and it stayed with me throughout the entire healing journey.
After contemplating “the scientific statement of being” in Science and Health, I knew that there was nothing in God’s creation that could cause or experience injury, and that I could not be deceived into believing otherwise, because “All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all” (p. 468).
