Injuries quickly healed

Colin Treworgy

In January 1994, I injured my knee in a hockey game. For four days I could hardly move it, let alone stand or walk. I didn't know what was wrong, but from the beginning I was confident that God could heal me.

I resumed playing hockey three weeks after the accident.

I contacted a Christian Science practitioner to help me pray. I don't remember all the thoughts I prayed with and received in prayer, but I know that I became convinced that I wasn't waiting for a physical condition to change. My wholeness was from God—intact, complete, indestructible; and God was sending me the ideas, inspiration, and insight that I needed to awake immediately to my healthy condition. I wasn't waiting for God to do something. God is always giving what we need. I just needed to be receptive.

Over those four days of prayer, I struggled to listen with all my heart. The presence of God grew gradually clearer to me.

Late in the fourth day, I got a much clearer idea of the presence of the Christ—God's healing power. It is difficult to put this into words. In some ways it was like the big aha!-type feeling you get when you finally discover the solution to some puzzle that has been eluding you, or the feeling you have when you become wide-awake and realize you've been dreaming.

In this case I truly felt God's presence. I sat up, put my feet on the floor, and for the first time in four days stood up on my own power.

At first I moved around slowly on crutches. But the next day I abandoned the crutches and went to work. I resumed playing hockey three weeks after the accident. I'm still actively involved in hockey and soccer, and have never had any weakness of my knee or recurrence of the problem. This experience has left me with a conviction of the reality and presence of God.

Colin Treworgy
Creve Coeur, Missouri

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