In the All-Mind there are no accidents

Recently I was scheduled to talk with a meeting of Christian Scientists. On the way, as I was stepping down from the bus taking me to the airport, I turned and tripped backwards over the curb to fall flat on my back on the cement sidewalk. I got up quickly.

Several people kindly brushed me off and inquired if I was alright, and I assured them I was and went into the airport and walked fairly normally to the gate for departure. I did think about the truth that in the All-Mind there are no accidents, but while waiting for the plane to board, found that I could no longer stand or sit or walk without severe pain. I managed to get on the plane but was grateful to have the flight to do the praying that was obviously needed.

As I prayed, it became clear to me I couldn’t just brush off the experience by holding in thought a line or two from Science and Health. I needed to understand more thoroughly what had supposedly been going on in that particular experience and get much clearer about the spiritual truth that was actually present and making all the difference regardless of what the body had to say. I realized that it wasn’t a simple mistake, as such things sometimes are, but in this case was the aggressive effort of mortal mind to insist on its sense of things instead of the spiritual light and goodness coming from divine Spirit and Soul. In other words, the meeting wasn’t just one of the millions of meetings going on during that same time but with Science as its purpose and content, it could make a unique difference in how people thought and lived. The mesmeric sense opposing that possibility had to be undone and done away with by Truth. With a practitioner’s help, and working steadily and obediently with Truth, I felt the apparent injury (the error) begin to lessen, and soon it was no longer a factor or even a feeling, and the healing was complete.