One morning in late June 2020, I woke up with a painful shoulder. I remembered that a doctor who had conducted a required company physical exam when I was in my mid-twenties had said, “You must be living in constant pain due to the bone structure of this shoulder.” I had assured the doctor that I was in no pain. I hadn’t experienced any pain in the shoulder over the years until that morning and had been able to participate freely in normal activities and to wear clothes as sold with no need for altering the shoulders.
After I remembered the doctor’s comment, a stronger message came to me: “No man knoweth the Son, but the Father” (Matthew 11:27). I looked up these words of Christ Jesus in the Bible and reasoned that just as God perfectly and completely knew His Son, Christ Jesus, God knows me (and each of us) as His spiritual, good, perfect, painless image and likeness (see Genesis 1:27, 31).
At first I wondered if I would need to get a sling for my arm because of the painful shoulder, but as I prayed with the truths in the Christian Science Quarterly Bible Lesson that week, I no longer felt a need to investigate a sling. The Lesson contains passages from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. The eternal truths of the Bible were very vivid, and I found ways to walk, sit, and sleep that were comfortable.
