Testimony of Healing January 22, 2001 Issue

Able to walk without a limp

Carolyn H. Roth

I was carrying the vacuum cleaner down our spiral staircase one Saturday morning, when I turned my ankle. As I stepped down hard, there was a loud crack, and I fell to the floor in extreme pain.

I pulled myself to a sitting position and could see that my foot and ankle were badly twisted. The "scientific statement of being" from Science and Health came to my thought: "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-All" (p. 468). I don't believe I actually was saying it especially loudly, but the thoughts came to me as though I was shouting it.

It continues, "Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal." The signs of a serious injury seemed so real that I felt a need to drown them out with a very strong declaration of truth: "Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual."

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