Testimony of Healing February 19, 2001 Issue

Disbelief in physics

Susan Spain

I get up much earlier than my husband and don't like to turn on lights and wake him. One morning I walked very hard into a seldom-closed door. I heard a distinct crack—my nose.

At first I thought, "That was really stupid" and, "Oh, no, you've got lots of meetings today, and you'll look terrific with a bloated nose and black eyes." However, those thoughts were immediately followed by the remembrance of three words: "disbelief in physics." That brought my thinking up short. I recognized those three words as part of a statement from Science and Health, but I wasn't sure what the rest of it was.

I realized that the phrase "disbelief in physics" was from the previous week's Bible Lesson—"God the Only Cause and Creator"—in a section that dealt with what to do about accidents. A person's face smashing into a door and being injured was a matter of two things colliding—of physics. Physics looks at material causes and effects. Years of relying on Biblical truths had taught me that because God is the only cause, I could therefore experience only the effects and consequences of being a child of God. Those consequences are joy and freedom.

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