One winter morning I was going down the back steps of the...

One winter morning I was going down the back steps of the house when I slipped and fell. I hadn't realized there had been an ice storm that night and the steps were slippery. My arm was extremely painful, and I couldn't get up when I tried. As I was expecting a baby at the time, I was also concerned about how the hard fall would affect our unborn baby. My thoughts were racing with negative "what if?" suggestions—diagnosing the extent of the injuries.

I realized I had to vigorously stop this kind of thinking. I knew it was not going to help me, nor was it what God would communicate to me. In order to be healed I consciously turned my thought away from the pain to listen to God's caring messages. The only idea I could hold on to at the time was "God is taking care of me." I repeated this out loud until I could think clearly enough to figure out how to get up. At this point I saw our toddler watching me on the other side of our sliding glass door. I shouted to her to go and get her daddy, praying that she would be able to deliver the message, even though she was not talking yet. She alerted her daddy and he helped me into the house. He immediately called a Christian Science practitioner to help us find healing through prayer. As soon as he had explained the situation, the practitioner agreed to treat me through prayer. Instantly the pain in my arm was gone. Although I was still unable to use my arm, there was a sense of spiritual uplift that calmed both my husband's thought and my own.

In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures Mary Baker Eddy speaks of the mental healer confining himself "chiefly to mental reconstruction and to the prevention of inflammation" (p. 401). I focused my prayer on mental reconstruction. I understood that in reality I had never for an instant been separated from God's omnipresence. By that afternoon my arm was again fully functional. I never experienced any swelling, bruising, or any other problems with my arm or with the pregnancy. It was as if the accident had never happened. Six months later we had a beautiful baby girl.

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