My wife, our friend and I went to listen to a concert in one of the most well-known venues in Melbourne. After we parked our car, two older ladies pointed us to the entrance and we started walking towards it. Coming down a small asphalt slope on the road, we suddenly heard an alarming sound behind us, we turned around and saw that one of these ladies had fallen heavily. She had a deep gash on her forehead and was bleeding. She wanted to see a doctor, and her friend helped her up. However, she turned pale and was unable to continue. We sat her on some nearby stairs, she closed her eyes, her body seemed to be lifeless and I realized that she had lost consciousness of herself. She called an ambulance.
A suggestion that came to me first was that she is running away. Being a student of divine Science and having a strong desire to help it, the idea that God is our life came to my mind. In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy I learned that this statement is true for everyone. On page 425 Science and Health it says: “Mortal man will be less mortal when he learns that matter never sustained existence and will never be able to destroy God, who is the Life of man.”
Supported by these ideas I was able to mentally reject that suggestion, telling myself energetically, “NO!” Based on what I knew to be true and also on the need of the moment, I told that lady with confidence and all my love: “God is your life!” Within moments, still sprawled on the stairs, she opened her eyes and I helped her sit up. She looked me in the eyes but she couldn’t speak. Refusing to accept what the material senses told me, I felt compelled to repeat “God is your life!” Immediately her face changed, her eyes lit up and her life seemed to return to her body. She told me twice: “Thank you. You have helped me.”
Although his wound was still bleeding, he obviously felt much stronger and even expressed a desire to go to the concert. When the ambulance arrived about five minutes later, it seemed that only the wound needed to be cleaned. She was fully conscious and was able to tell two assistants his name and address, and I told them what had happened. They thanked me and left. After this incident we were still on time for the concert, and we enjoyed it even more.
It reminded me how vital it was for me to always keep my thoughts pure and selfless, to live daily in the awareness of that harmony that comes from God. It illustrated to me how good it was to be able to reject the temptation of an apparent pleasure in material well-being, in the possession of things like a house or a car at an earlier stage in my life. It also clearly showed me that keeping my desires high and pure blessed a stranger in an emergency. I felt the truth of these words in one of Paul’s letters: “…great gain is godliness accompanied by contentment.” (1 Timothy 6:6)
An experience on a sidewalk in my city spoke to me again about true satisfaction in life. Being satisfied and happy meant nurturing divine thoughts in my consciousness, observing and becoming more and more aware of the divine harmony and peace that exists within me. And most importantly for me, that incident on a sidewalk reaffirmed what I believed, that in fact I did not have to witness anything, really, anything, that did not come from God, who is omnipresence and from whom only good can like. .