Testimony of Healing November 12, 1984 Issue

In my senior year of college I traveled with a group of students...

THOMAS CHARLES BLAIR

In my senior year of college I traveled with a group of students to study art and architecture in Europe for several months. After we had arrived at our last destination, London, I fell while running down some stairs. Soon it was apparent that one of my ankles was sprained. The pain shortly became so intense that I could not walk. A taxi was called, and I was taken to the hotel and carried to my room.

Although the ankle was severely swollen and discolored, I felt confident in God's power to heal me. All of my life I have relied on God, and through prayer in Christian Science I have had many healings. I knew this would be no exception. A Christian Science practitioner was called, and he agreed to help me through prayer.

As I turned to God, several helpful ideas came to mind. The first chapter of Genesis teaches that man is made in the image and likeness of God. I knew therefore that, as man, I express God. If man—my true selfhood—really is the image of God, I thought, then only one of two things can be true: that God can be injured, and therefore so can I; or that God cannot be injured, and therefore neither can I. Since God is Spirit, as the Bible explains, I could express only spiritual qualities or conditions, such as health, harmony, and goodness. A sprained ankle certainly was not spiritual or Godlike. But how was I Godlike? How is man Godlike? I thought.

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