I will make the wilderness a pool of water

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From ‘A Century of Christian Science Healing’ page 122 –

At Munda, on New Georgia, during more than 2 weeks of incessant fighting, I was cared for and saved from fear. We had been fighting for a number of days and were out of water. Many were being wounded, and many others were going off the front carrying the wounded. Few men were left to hold ground. Our nearest source of drinking water was nearly 5 miles behind us, from which we had been cut off. The jungles were steaming hot; we had been without water for hours and faced going without it all night.
This was a human need and all realised it. Each turned to God in his own way. Indeed, all men pray under circumstances like this. I stepped off the trail and sat down to pray. It was up to God, and I just let it be up to Him. Soon afterward, an artillery shell of our own, intended to blast the enemy ahead of us, fell short and hit on the trail, hurting no one. Water gushed out of the hole! Our need was met. We were all grateful and praised God, one to another. We didn’t feel that any miracle had occurred; this was just natural.
As I left the front a day or so later, I found a small Bible on the trail. Having lost my own, I picked it up eagerly. The water incident had been continually in my thought since it occurred. I opened the Bible at random and my eyes fell on the 35th verse of Psalm 107, ‘He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.’

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