Testimony of Healing April 26, 1999 Issue

Severely injured finger healed through prayer

Amanda Holmes Duffy

I was trimming a bunch of flowers with a sharp knife one morning, when I accidentally cut my index finger severely. Grabbing a kitchen cloth, I wrapped the finger and found my way to a sofa.

Since I was alone except for my three-year-old child, I knew I needed to reach out to God wholeheartedly in order to deal with this frightening and painful emergency. My prayer began very simply, if a little desperately. Noticing my distress, my little boy approached the sofa and said gently: "It's all right, Mama. God is all around you." It was as though an angel had spoken through the purity and simplicity of this little child, and it had a healing effect. Something had been stirred in my consciousness that enabled me to take the next logical step. I turned on a tape player close at hand and played a recording of the chapter "Recapitulation" from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. I've found listening to these cassettes to be a helpful way of filling my thought with spiritual truths. I don't remember exactly which statements I listened to, but my fear and weakness gave way to strength, and to an awareness of God's loving presence. Soon I was able to bandage the finger.

I continued to pray with the idea that there was no past accident or future consequence of accident. In reality, there is only the eternal now. That now is God's spiritual, perfect domain. I saw that I must challenge each suggestion of difficulty or disability as it came along with a specific metaphysical fact about myself as God's child. I needed to handle each thought at the moment it presented itself, without concern for the factor of time.

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