Testimony of Healing July 18, 1988 Issue

Christian Science has been practiced in my family since my...

Madalyn Larsen

Christian Science has been practiced in my family since my mother was a young girl. While I have known no other way of life, I used to be reluctant to acknowledge publicly that I am a student of Christian Science. I felt it made me seem "different."

During the winter of 1986 I was faced with a situation in which I couldn't hide my affiliation with Christian Science. Early one Friday morning while I was out exercising our dog, I stubbed my toe on the uneven sidewalk and flipped forward, literally falling on my face. As I picked myself up, my first reaction was to go to a house to call my husband to come get me in the car.

As that seemed impractical in a strange neighborhood in the early morning dark, I turned to God, acknowledging man's real freedom from harm, and my ability under any circumstance to do whatever I needed to do. I was drawing from these statements in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 385): "Whatever it is your duty to do, you can do without harm to yourself. If you sprain the muscles or wound the flesh, your remedy is at hand."

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