The effect of turning to "The Lord's Prayer"

[Ref. testimony #10]

How can we make the Lord’s Prayer more a part
of our everyday thoughts?

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Sometimes we get a view fixed in our minds; a bad image we might have seen in a film which occasionally comes to thought! I once had an experience which proved how we need to watch that thoughts don’t become embedded in our consciousness!

When inadvertently crashing through a fence on a steep mountain pass in Wales, I suddenly had a view of cars going over cliff edges, tumbling and bursting into flame.

I had only just got into my friend’s car, with the steering wheel in full lock, and my foot missed the foot break. I was heading for the drop! I suddenly rebelled against a view of myself tumbling like this and immediately said,

“No!” …….. “Our Father, which art in heaven!”  I instantly felt secure! The car stopped!

With the car swinging, astride the stonework edge, I carefully opened the door and climbed out. I was so glad to be able to finish the prayer; so grateful to reach and hug my friend. Something under the car had caught on some barbed wire!

Mary Baker Eddy quotes Shakespeare, who said in Hamlet
“There is nothing either good nor bad but thinking makes it so.” It seemed to me that this bad car experience had changed because I had chosen God’s image of heavenly good.

Mary Baker Eddy interprets the first line Our Father which art in Heaven as “Our Father-Mother God, all-harmonious”.

Certainly knowing that God included me in harmony – by rebelling against danger – helped me!