Testimony of Healing January 22, 1996 Issue

Several years ago, while I was still in college, I landscaped to...

Ira-John Gorman

Several years ago, while I was still in college, I landscaped to earn money for school. A favorite aunt and uncle in our family needed to have a sprinkler system installed at their home. I gladly volunteered for the job to share my newly developed skills.

At the same time, I was a member of a college football team, so the only free time I had was Sunday afternoons. I planned the job well in advance. I needed to rent a ditch-digging machine, make numerous visits to my uncle's house, and attend to all the other details involved. While this was going on, a neighbor of my uncle's came over a couple of times to express his opinion on how the job should be done. He invited me and my uncle to see the job that he had done at his house to support the credibility of his advice. What I saw there had just the opposite effect. He had made some glaring mistakes that made me feel that his suggestions didn't warrant much attention. But instead of praying to come to grips with his intrusiveness in a way that would avoid our having any future conflict, I simply ignored the situation. In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy writes, "You must control evil thoughts in the first instance, or they will control you in the second" (p. 234).

The night before the job was scheduled to be completed, my football team played a particularly hard game against a very big and tough opponent. While trying to tackle one of the biggest running backs we had ever faced, I sustained what was diagnosed by our team trainer as a separated shoulder. The injury occurred at the very end of the game, and the excitement of our victory masked most of the pain. Again, I failed to take the opportunity to pray and to control the error in thought. I was 0 for 2 in the metaphysical department!

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