Testimony of Healing October 16, 2006 Issue

LEG INJURY HEALED QUICKLY

ANN BENSON

Recently, while I was playing tennis, I went down on my leg and heard a loud crack. I couldn't move easily, but was able to leave the court and get to my car.

By the time I reached home, my leg was very painful and had started to swell. I knew that applying ice might help, but I decided that if I were going to rely on Christian Science treatment for healing—which I definitely intended to do—I didn't need to apply a material remedy to my leg. I had learned through the study of Christian Science that my identity was not material—or both spiritual and material—but entirely spiritual. I knew that any inharmonious physical condition is actually a false belief entertained mentally, even if the condition seems to be the result of outward circumstances.

I had also learned that matter—the physical body—has no intelligence of its own. The body's five senses, therefore, couldn't tell me anything about my real being or dictate my experience. What I needed to do was to wake up from the dream—the false picture—of injury and pain, which were unknown to God.

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