Testimony of Healing December 18, 1976 Issue

Throughout our marriage Christian Science has met and mastered...

Peter T. Kennedy

Throughout our marriage Christian Science has met and mastered many challenges. An understanding of the ever-presence of God has sustained us continuously in the healing of contagious illnesses of our two children, in matters of income and supply, of home and employment.

Recently I was tearing down an old wooden fence in our backyard. The rotting post gave with the first blow of the ax, and I fell heavily onto the pile of boards that lay around it. As I arose I was startled to see a board clinging to my left hand by a rusty nail imbedded in my wrist. To conquer my fear, I held resolutely to the fact that God knows nothing of accidents. I extracted the nail and prayed to replace the belief of infection with the purity of God's goodness and my reflection of this purity. After I washed my paintstained hands with gasoline, I asked my wife to pray for me.

While I was resolute in my desire to heal this in Christian Science and was confident of the power of God, I was unable to erase the fear in my thought, so I called a Christian Science practitioner. She assured me that this incident never happened under God's good government and it had not happened to me, the perfect expression of God. That evening I called the practitioner again, as there was some stiffness and swelling and the wrist appeared to be sprained in addition to the wound. Her strong affirmation of truth, that I was a perfect, spiritual idea, and pure, flooded my troubled thought. I was also greatly comforted by these words in I John (4:18): "Perfect love casteth out fear."

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