Testimony of Healing October 9, 1995 Issue

I am learning to be grateful for every opportunity for spiritual...

B. Frederick Smith

I am learning to be grateful for every opportunity for spiritual growth and spiritual unfoldment.

Last winter I had such an opportunity. One Sunday morning in January I was in the parking lot across the street from our church. After finishing a conversation, I turned to make a quick dash back to the warmth of the building. Unaware that I was standing with my back to an angular guy wire that ran from the top of a utility pole to the ground, I caught my ankles in the wire, and my movement propelled me with great force, face-down to the pavement. I sprang up immediately, embarrassed to have made such a blunder. As I ran toward the building I noticed that blood was falling on the pavement, so I headed for the men's room to clean up, wondering if I would be presentable to teach my Sunday School class of lively, inquisitive young boys.

From the moment I fell, I had affirmed my oneness with God, but had not then thought of this happening as an opportunity for spiritual growth. Rather, I was thinking of it as a distraction to my teaching the class.

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