Article January 1, 2000 ISSUE

"My name is Raquel, and I'm OK"

Raquel Veronica Fonseca Rivera

About three years ago, I had a healing that was very important to me. I was walking to the park with some friends, and as we stepped off the curb I felt something like a shadow — and then a sudden impact. When I woke up, I was on the ground. I sensed that a car had run over me. I was very scared because I didn't know exactly what had happened. A friend asked me, “Are you all right, Raquel?” And I automatically said, “Yes.”

I started to pray, “God help me! God help me!” I began to calm down and started to say “the scientific statement of being” from Science and Health (see p. 468 ). It talks about how we are spiritual, not material. I also remembered another place in this book where it says that we are ideas of God. We're not made up of brain, blood, bones, and so on (see p. 475 ). I suddenly felt tremendous peace. I asked my friends to help me get up.

This happened in front of my house, and a lot of people had gathered around. They lifted me up on the curb. I felt very calm, and at that moment I knew I was all right. Then a person walked up and asked me, “What's your name?” It was a man who was drunk. He said, “I'm sorry. I didn't see you.” At that moment I felt tremendous anger toward him. I said, “Don't touch me.” But then I quickly thought: “No, that's not going to help. If I want to feel good, I have to give good. I can't see this man in this way. He's the image of God, just like I am.”

Right then I remembered a line from a hymn that begins, “Love one another ....” So I started to love this man as he was. I said to him, “My name is Raquel, and I'm OK.” So he calmed down. He was very scared. My friend called my mother, and when she arrived she comforted me and asked the man what had happened. His van had gone into reverse at considerable speed and had hit me. I'd fallen underneath the van, and the front tire had run over my knee.

After speaking with the man, my mother told me she was going to take me to the hospital to be checked out, for legal and insurance reasons and because the people standing around were very concerned. I agreed, but I asked someone to call my sister. She's a Christian Science practitioner. When my sister arrived at the hospital, she said: “I'm going to help you with prayer. And you're going to pray, too.”

After the doctor finished examining me, he said I had some torn ligaments in my knee and that one part of the cartilage had been shattered. He told us that he had to operate on me the following day at the latest or I would never be able to move the knee again. He also said that after the operation I would be in therapy and rehabilitation for many months. I wouldn't be able to participate in sports for a year. I thought, “No, this is definitely not true about me.”

My mother thanked the doctor for his help, but said she was taking me home. There I prayed a lot. I thought about what it meant that I was spiritual and that I had control over my body. I realized that my body was an outward symbol of what was in my thought. And I prayed a lot to overcome fear and be at peace. The result of this prayer was that two weeks later I was back at school, participating in sports. And about 15 days later, at my 15th birthday party, I danced all night. This was something very special for me because it was such a quick healing.

Raquel Veronica Fonseca Rivera
Guadalajara, Mexico

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