Not guilty in the Supreme Court of Spirit

I’m especially grateful for the healing of a back injury that occurred earlier this year. One afternoon while going out to play tennis with my wife, I responded to a friend’s request to roll his ball toward him on an adjoining court. The ball was at my feet, and as I bent over to return it, I suddenly found myself in severe pain. Although I was able to walk and even hit some balls, getting beyond the claim of pain seemed difficult, despite my best efforts to work about it. I held fast to the scientific statement of being, silently declaring every truth I could, and we managed to get home without incident.

Over the next day or so, I constantly found myself facing the argument that an injury had occurred as the result of responding to a friend’s request for help. Mortal mind was determined to have me believe its lie.

Then all of a sudden it hit me: Divine Mind doesn’t know anything about this. Tremendous freedom came with that realization, and the claim of severe injury lifted. I knew I could rest assured of the truth of that statement, because it is a spiritual fact. It is undergirded by God’s law, so there is nothing that can change or contradict it. The carnal mind’s insistence that its view of the situation was the only legitimate one was of no importance so long as I didn’t give it any authority. I recalled a statement that a wonderful Christian Science practitioner shared with me many years ago: “You can have millions or billions of zeros lined up one after another – just remember that they’re meaningless as long as you don’t put a number in front of them.”

I’m also very grateful for the loving support of a Christian Science practitioner. Within a couple of days, I was completely free from the problem. The trial in Science and Health, where the prisoner is found not guilty in the Supreme Court of Spirit – the only court having jurisdiction to hear the case – was also a strong reminder of the basis for my freedom.

On another occasion last year, I was able to be at my post as Second Reader despite having had the symptoms of a heavy cold earlier in the week. Upon inquiring if a friend could possibly substitute for me that Sunday, she reminded me that freedom is normal and that we both have a healthy disbelief in matter. With that reminder, I continued to work with expectancy and joy, and I was able to go forward with the reading. The Word was unobstructed.