Testimony of Healing April 9, 1984 Issue

My daughter, Susan, started skating six years ago and showed...

ESME THELMA WOOD with contributions from SUSAN WOOD

My daughter, Susan, started skating six years ago and showed great potential. Her coach was expectant of a high level of accomplishment from her. However, the National Championships came, and although she was well rehearsed, her nerves got the better of her and she did poorly. The following year, when the Nationals arrived it was discovered that her entry form had been sent in two days late, so she could not participate. Still later, when she was approaching an important provincial championship that would qualify her for the Nationals, an accident on the ice disabled her. So once again she did not participate. On the fourth occasion, she had to withdraw because she was suffering with influenza.

Now, although Christian Science treatment had been requested for, and quick recoveries made from, all these problems, nevertheless, in skating circles, she earned herself a poor reputation as one dogged by misfortune, some hinting that it was brought on by fear of competing at the national level.

Two years ago, a very important championship took place, the outcome of which qualified three girls for the Inter-Provincials. My daughter worked very hard for this event, and I prayed and studied in Science concerning it. Two weeks before the competition, however, she tore a ligament in her foot, making landing from complicated double jumps painful, if not impossible. The comment made to us by her coach was, "It's to be expected— championship time again." On hearing this I immediately realized that specific prayer was needed. So I drove my daughter and myself straight to the office of a Christian Science practitioner. Unfortunately this woman was unable to see us at that time. But she did ask me to phone her in an hour. I did so and explained the whole story. Afterward she encouraged me to see that what was important was not winning for personal glorification but that whatever we do should be for the glorification of God; to acknowledge that my daughter was the full spiritual reflection of God and as such could express only His qualities. There was no winning or losing here, only expressing.

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