Testimony of Healing October 9, 1971 Issue

I am nine years old and have attended the Christian Science Sunday School...

Lisa Louise Hansen with contributions from Jerome Reid Hansen

I am nine years old and have attended the Christian Science Sunday School since I was three. One day my dad and I went skiing. On the last run of the day we took separate trails down. I fell and hurt my leg badly. I called for my dad, but he was on the other side of the hill and didn't hear me. The ski patrol came up to me and examined my leg and said it was broken. They told me to lie still while they put a splint on it and brought a toboggan to get me down to our car.

In the meantime, my dad came over. He knelt down and softly told me to be quiet in my thoughts and realize my perfection as God's child. Then we each prayed silently to deny the erroneous thought that my leg was broken. We let the ski patrol finish their work, knowing they were doing what they felt was best, but we continued to deny that it had any effect on the real idea of God.

On the way home we loosened the splint, took off my ski boot, and prayed to know I was a perfect idea of God and ideas cannot be dislocated or broken.

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