Testimony of Healing April 23, 1979 Issue

While playing in a garden as a child, I jumped on a pointed...

Nancy Jo Knabe Cranmer with contributions from Ruth Taplin

While playing in a garden as a child, I jumped on a pointed rock. The incident was forgotten until a few days later when I started to limp. I was scheduled to attend a summer camp for Christian Scientists, and in spite of a small blister that appeared on my heel, my family went ahead with preparations. At camp the foot became severely infected. I called a Christian Science practitioner back home. Although I no longer recall what we talked about, I remember feeling the love of that practitioner reaching across the miles to reassure me of God's ever-present love and protective care. A personal relationship problem that had bothered me more than the foot condition was resolved. Shortly thereafter my foot was completely healed.

When I was somewhat older, I was running to catch a school bus. After hitting an icy patch on the pavement, I slipped and fell. I was able to get up and return home, although I seemed to be suffering effects of a concussion. My mother called a Christian Science practitioner to pray for me. I was a student in a Christian Science Sunday School, where I was learning of my permanent status as God's perfect idea, which could only reflect the qualities of the creator. At first I could not focus to read. But soon the inspiring and healing passages from the Bible and Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy that I had memorized for Sunday School poured into my consciousness, and I pondered them anew. Within fifteen minutes I was able to read Science and Health for myself. In about an hour all symptoms left me, and I was completely and permanently healed.

While I have every reason to be grateful for the prompt and compassionate help of our practitioners, I also rejoice that each of us is directly related to God, Mind, and thus we can realize for ourselves the truths from Him needed to heal any situation. I proved this for myself while in college. I was returning to campus downtown area of a large city by subway. At one stop an angry young man pushed his way into the car and started to criticize me. He became agitated and threatening, and grabbed and shook me. Frightened, I turned wholeheartedly to God. Then I thought of this: "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear" (I John 4:18). I saw that right where a vicious mortal seemed to be, I had to see the gentle, perfect reflection of divine Love that was really there. If I believed that my true nature is God-created, the reflection of good, I had to see this individual as truly reflecting the same perfection.

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