Several years ago I was completing my Federal Aviation Administration flight examination to obtain a private pilot's license. The tower at the airport had given me a "straight-in" approach to the runway, but within several hundred feet of touchdown the plane I was flying became gripped in a "microburst," otherwise known as severe wind shear. The FAA examiner took over the controls, but a crash landing was unavoidable.

I know nothing of the events that followed except that I was taken to a hospital. When I became conscious there, I heard my teen-age daughter emphatically repeating "the scientific statement of being" (found on page 468 of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy). Later I learned that the FAA examiner had also survived and that a Christian Science practitioner had been called and was praying for me. How grateful I felt!

The hospital staff had rejoined an index finger to my hand and set my broken bones including a broken back. I was put in a body cast which I was told would be necessary for six months, but at my request, the cast was removed after twelve hours.

I progressed each day after that, and I soon wanted to be more active. About two weeks after the accident, it was arranged for me to move to a local nursing facility for Christian Scientists. Throughout this entire time, the practitioner continued to work, watch, and pray with me. Mrs. Eddy's answer to the question "What is man?" on pages 475–477 of Science and Health, "the scientific statement of being" (previously mentioned), as well as material from the Christian Science periodicals, brought constant inspiration. Spiritual insistence and the loving encouragement of family and friends helped too. "Only Satan fell from heaven," a dear friend explained once. The vital healing atmosphere of the nursing facility so renewed me that I was able to walk out of its doors after a two-week stay. I spent a month at home before resuming my full-time fourth-grade teaching position. Incidentally, I continue to enjoy participating in the activities I was involved with before this healing—including playing tennis and the organ. Severe double vision—a result of a concussion sustained in the accident—was met and mastered also.

I still love to fly, but I am most delighted to be seeing more and more of God's greater dimensions. As Mrs. Eddy writes (Science and Health, p. 427): "Immortal Mind, governing all, must be acknowledged as supreme in the physical realm, so-called, as well as in the spiritual."

CONSTANCE DIMOCK SEBALD
Morrison, Colorado

My daughter's healing described in the testimony above is true—and indeed a continuing, inspiring proof of the all-inclusive, higher law of God.

When I was told of the accident, my thought immediately turned to these words of Mrs. Eddy's in her poem "The Mother's Evening Prayer" (Poems, p. 4): "Thou Love that guards the nestling's faltering flight! / Keep Thou my child on upward wing tonight."

It is with heartfelt gratitude that I attest to my daughter's healing and to the loving support she received from family and friends at that time.

GRACE DIMOCK SMITH
Denver, Colorado