Testimony of Healing May 29, 2000 Issue

Healing following a fall of more than fifty feet

Clifford Kapps Eriksen

The catwalk on which I was standing in a building under construction suddenly gave way. Plummeting from the top floor through the lower levels of the building, I landed on the concrete basement floor more than fifty feet below. No one was there, and no one was within earshot to hear my cries for help. As I lay there, however, collecting my thoughts, I began to feel that God was present.

I had, as was usual for me, begun my day studying the Bible and correlative passages from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy as found in the Christian Science Quarterly Weekly Bible Lessons. I think of the truths I discover through this study as unalterable facts of being, and I claim them as divine laws governing me and all of God's children. As I lay there on the basement floor, I clung to what I'd gained that morning about God's protecting presence and power.

Paul's words to the believers in Philippi held special significance at that moment: "The Lord is at hand. ... In every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. . . . God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus" (Phil. 4:5, 6, 19).

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