Testimony of Healing November 20, 1995 Issue

While out of town on business, I got up during the second night...

Donna S. Gordon

While out of town on business, I got up during the second night of my stay to go to the bathroom. I didn't turn on the lights, so as not to disturb my roommate, who was sleeping in the other bed. As I walked into the small bathroom, I suddenly felt myself falling. My first thought was "Where am I falling to?" It felt like I was falling into space, and I knew the bathroom wasn't that large.

My second thought was "There are no accidents." Christian Scientists are familiar with Mrs. Eddy's statement in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures that reads, "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). To me this means that there is never a moment when God is not present and in full control of my life. These thoughts probably took no more than a second, and at this point I hit the base of my skull on the rim of the bathtub. I immediately declared, firmly, "I cannot have an accident, for God is in control."

I was able to get up and go back to bed, at which point my friend asked if I was all right. The sound of my fall had wakened her. I said I was, and she drifted back to sleep. For several days I had been pondering the fact that God embraces humanity in His love, and now it was wonderfully comforting to know that God's arms were around me, upholding me, and had never let me fall. I considered "the scientific statement of being," found on page 468 of Science and Health, which declares that there is no substance in matter, because God is Spirit and He is All. If there is no substance in matter, then there is no pain in matter. I prayed the Lord's Prayer, and the "Daily Prayer" given in the Manual of The Mother Church by Mrs. Eddy (Art. VIII, Sect. 4). Eventually I went back to sleep, and woke with the alarm the next morning.

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