Testimony of Healing June 4, 1984 Issue

Several winters ago I fell on ice as I endeavored to move a...

MARTHA ABBOTT

Several winters ago I fell on ice as I endeavored to move a trash can that was stuck to the ground. My feet slipped out from under me and I landed hard on my right hip, injuring my left shoulder and my right elbow in the process. I lay there stunned for a few minutes. As my thinking began to clear, I affirmed that there are no accidents or pain in God's spiritual man—my true selfhood. I then realized that because of the lateness of the hour and the cold, no one was on the street, so it would be necessary for me to get back to my motel office (half a city block from where I was) on my own.

I got to my feet by hanging on to the trash can and mentally hanging on to the spiritual truth that divine Love is always sustaining man. (To material sense, my arm and shoulder were numb. Also, my right leg seemed abnormally extended.)

By holding on to the building with one hand and on to the cars parked in front of the motel units with the other, I moved forward, declaring vehemently with each step this statement from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy (p. 424): "Under divine Providence there can be no accidents, since there is no room for imperfection in perfection." On the same page Mrs. Eddy writes, "Accidents are unknown to God ...." When I thought of this, I realized that I certainly could not be experiencing something that had never really happened! [The entire passage reads: "Accidents are unknown to God, or immortal Mind, and we must leave the mortal basis of belief and unite with the one Mind, in order to change the notion of chance to the proper sense of God's unerring direction and thus bring out harmony."]

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