Testimony of Healing August 1, 1994 Issue

One evening after it was already dark, I was walking to a...

George B. Skeen

One evening after it was already dark, I was walking to a grocery store to buy some milk. A particular street was unusually busy, and I realized I had better hurry across at an intersection. I did not realize that a city repair crew had dug a circular hole about six inches deep completely around the lid of an underground water pipe. I stepped down into this hole and my foot stuck fast. I felt a severe pain and felt something in the ankle break. Cars were approaching quite rapidly, and I was afraid I might not be able go get out of the way!

Immediately I realized that God knows nothing of accidents, and that all true, harmonious action proceeds from Him. I was instantly able to dislodge my foot from the hole and hobble to the sidewalk.

Then a calm came over me that is difficult to describe. At the same time this passage from Science and Health came very clearly—word for word: "When an accident happens, you think or exclaim, 'I am hurt!' Your thought is more powerful than your words, more powerful than the accident itself, to make the injury real.

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