Testimony of Healing September 23, 2019 Issue

Facial injuries healed

John Thorington

During a 2013 trip to Russia, my wife and I and some close friends were about to join other travelers to begin a 1,200-mile river and waterway cruise from Moscow to St. Petersburg. Our last night in Moscow included a bus trip downtown for a performance of Russian song and dance.

As I stepped off the curb near Red Square, I fell hard on my face on the pavement. My face was bleeding and bruised, but several kind passersby handed me tissues and clean handkerchiefs. Many truths regarding God’s care for me flooded my thoughts, and I felt my confidence rising to meet this challenge. I had come many thousands of miles to see Russia, so I declined with thanks our guide’s offer to bus me back to the ship right away.

During the show, I addressed the bleeding and pain with prayer in Christian Science and silently repeated “the scientific statement of being” from page 468 of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. It includes these lines: “There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all.” I knew that what appeared so aggressively real was, in fact, not real to God. My wife was concerned, but I asked her to simply pray quietly and enjoy the show.

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