Testimony of Healing June 19, 2000 Issue

BEYOND 9 - 1 - 1

Sandy Clark

"We were in the Bahamas, snorkeling with a group of friends, and we'd just anchored the boat near a beautiful coral reef. When I checked the anchor, I found that it wasn't holding, so I swam back to the boat to let my husband know that we'd have to reset it.

As I approached the boat, I found one of the men in our group in the water, holding onto a life jacket. Something was terribly wrong. He was exhibiting symptoms that had been described in a CPR class I'd been required to take, symptoms requiring emergency treatment. At six miles out from the shore, we were literally beyond 911—well beyond the reach of what the EMS [Emergency Medical Service] calls "the chain of survival."

But we were not beyond the unlimited jurisdiction of the ever-present, omnipotent, Father-Mother God. Science and Health describes the reach of God's voice in this way: "The 'still, small voice' of scientific thought reaches over continent and ocean to the globe's remotest bound" (p. 559). I listened to this "still, small voice" with all my heart, and tried to be obedient to its every direction. Having been healed through prayer alone as a child during a life-threatening emergency, I'd grown up knowing I could trust God to meet any need anytime, anywhere. That knowledge calmed and fortified me now, out at sea.

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