Testimony of Healing June 15, 1998 Issue

Injured arm and ribs healed through prayer

Jonathan Blackman

In the spring of 1997, I attended a small farm-camp for young Christian Scientists between the ages of five and thirteen. On Saturday evening after the camp had finished, a group of us were trying to get the horses back into their paddock from the orchard where they were grazing. As always, they were reluctant to leave the lush grass, and as I was pushing one of the biggest horses in the direction of the paddock, he jumped and kicked out at me with his back legs. The blow hit me hard on the elbow and the ribs, and sent me rolling across the grass.

That morning before breakfast, we had sat in front of the fire reading out loud the Bible Lesson. The Lesson for that week included the saying of Christ Jesus, "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment" (John 7:24), so I felt spiritually prepared to deal immediately with this belief of an injury.

I stood up straightaway. After assuring everyone that I was fine, I began actively acknowledging the ever-presence of God's goodness and love, which envelops all of His creation. The thought that my arm and ribs were broken had to be vigorously dismissed, and I did this with the conviction implied by Mary Baker Eddy's statement in Science and Health, "Declare that you are not hurt and understand the reason why, and you will find the ensuing good effects to be in exact proportion to your disbelief in physics, and your fidelity to divine metaphysics, confidence in God as All, which the Scriptures declare Him to be" (p. 397).

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