Prayer in an accident

Christine Buxton

One day my sister came to pick me up from the office for lunch. As we walked down the street, I slipped and fell heavily on my back, knocking myself out in the process. I came round unable to move.

My sister was patting my face and trying to prop me up. For me, there was only one option. I needed to pray.

"Say 'the scientific statement of being' with me," I told her. This statement, which appears in Science and Health, says that life is wholly spiritual. It starts, "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter" (p. 468). Therefore, I reasoned, it wasn't a question of getting bits of flesh moving or of making my body go vertical instead of horizontal. I knew, at that moment, that my ability to move didn't come from my body or from willpower, but from recognizing my spiritual identity.

Another part of this statement reads, "All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all." To me this meant that my consciousness could only be the manifestation of the infinite Mind that is God.

For me, there was only one option. I needed to pray.

I knew that the spiritual facts we had been affirming had to be proved. I managed to get up, and, leaning on my sister, wobbled to an alleyway where we could sit quietly. We continued to pray. And very shortly my head cleared. The pain went. And I was able to walk to the restaurant and eat lunch as we had planned.

That evening I called a Christian Science practitioner, because I still couldn't move freely. She prayed for me for a couple of days until I was able to move freely.

This experience has been proof to me that healing comes about by acknowledging and understanding that "... man is not material; he is spiritual," as "the scientific statement of being" concludes.

Christine Buxton
Cobham, Surrey, England

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