Testimony of Healing February 13, 1978 Issue

Physical injury can often present a gruesome picture to the...

Jan Lauridsen with contributions from Kathryne I. Johnson, David A. Tyler

Physical injury can often present a gruesome picture to the senses, but how grateful we can be that no type of injury is beyond the power of Principle, Truth, to restore our bodies to complete health.

Last year I severed the end of a finger when I carelessly got it too close to the blade of a lawn mower that was in operation. My work and studies are in music, particularly piano playing, so this accident might have seemed disastrous. But I was able to keep this much in mind—that the expression of divine intelligence, in musical ways or otherwise, is in no way dependent upon one or any of my fingers. I knew that the progress of my piano students, as well as my own well-being, could not be compromised by any material state. I saw the importance of identifying myself and others as divine ideas of God, spiritual and perfect.

I did have to contend with fears, however. Although I appreciated the heartfelt concern of those people with whom I daily come in contact, they often made doomsday-type suggestions about the consequences I might suffer. I remember hearing warnings about infection, nerve damage, amputation, and about the possibility that I'd never play the piano again.

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