Article July 23, 2001 Issue

Sweet feet

By Julie Denison

FEET ARE pretty important—Biblically speaking. We discovered this one day last winter. During gym class, our sixth-grade daughter, Elizabeth, had landed on one of her ankles pretty hard and sprained it. It was the same ankle she had sprained a couple of years before.

Having always seen prayer used for our family's healthcare needs, Elizabeth was used to our instructions to ask for our help praying if she needed it. So she had done that. She was praying as well. Her coach, aware that she chooses Christian Science care for sickness or injuries, also spoke briefly with us on the phone. We know him pretty well, and he showed his usual kindness and openness toward our prayer-based approach to healthcare. But he did convey to us his specific concerns that the swelling needed to be reduced and that with ankle sprains, it is common for the injury to keep recurring.

Our best resources for learning how to heal spiritually—handsdown—are the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. Science and Health not only talks about stories and ideas from the Bible, but it also focuses a lot of light on how to pray and heal today. We had used these books other times to pray, and had seen plenty of healings in our family. That was one reason we felt confident going ahead with spiritual treatment for the ankle.

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