Testimony of Healing July 31, 2000 Issue

Physical and emotional healing after a fall

Joye C. Broughton

I had a devastating fall one day on a slippery road near my home. Several injuries occurred, but none so penetrating as the humiliation I felt while in front of the four cars that stopped as I lay in the street.

While getting up, I turned my thought away from my body by realizing my status as God's spiritual idea, unaltered by injury or accident. I felt the presence of the all-powerful Principle of being, God, ever with me. From this spiritual conviction I gained an understanding of the wholeness of my being—that my true, God-created self didn't include physicality or mortality. I also recognized that this self couldn't be altered. And I freely continued on my way.

During the walk I noticed three injuries—a bone in my foot that looked out of place to me, a malfunctioning knee, and a deep scrape on my hand—but the pain was already gone. These injuries healed within a few days as I persistently refused to believe I was really injured. Despite the healing of the physical injuries, however, I struggled for several weeks with the feeling of humiliation that persisted. My freedom did come, gently and simply, as I replaced the thought of humiliation with true humility.

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