Testimony of Healing December 27, 1993 Issue

My husband and I were working together with my dad on...

Pamela Joy McAuliffe

My husband and I were working together with my dad on a garden project, in connection with a summer-house we were building. A special sense of family unity inspired me—we were completing this feature of the project with a gift left by my dear grandmother, who had introduced our family to Christian Science.

I was filled with appreciation for all that Christian Science meant to me, and particularly conscious of some specific spiritual ideas I had been holding dear. I'd been praying to know that God is divine Life, and that His law is the law of health and harmony for all mankind.

When the building project was almost complete, I slipped on the early morning dew. To save my fall, I reached out and grabbed a sheet of freshly-cut roofing iron, nearly severing one finger. Equally instinctively, I reached for the meaning of the truth I knew so well from Science and Health: "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" (p. 424). I was very aware that I needed to be getting ready for an interview at our daughter's preschool. Another passage came to me, "Only through radical reliance on Truth can scientific healing power be realized" (p. 167). "Radical reliance" is what I had been practising in my prayer. Right then I felt humbly grateful for this opportunity to prove God's presence, power, and control.