Testimony of Healing August 27, 2001 Issue

The trip goes on as planned

Sandra Balderston

When I had just set foot in the Glasgow airport for the first time, my knee suddenly gave out, causing me to fall on the other knee. It was really painful.

My first reaction was, "Oh, great." But the next thought was that I had been planning and looking forward to this trip for several months, and I just rebelled at the idea that anything could spoil it. I saw the trip as a wonderful opportunity that God had given me and reminded myself that nothing could hinder or interfere with God's plan. I kept traveling, all the while mentally calling out to God.

When I arrived in Edinburgh, where I was to spend four days before starting a strenuous nine-day hike, my knee still hurt. I called a Christian Science practitioner to pray for healing, and we prayed together for the next three days. I studied the chapter "Physiology" in Science and Health and walked everywhere as best I could those three days, becoming fearless in my certainty that God had never created anything that could cause pain or slow me down in any way. This statement from Science and Health helped me: "Have no fear that matter can ache, swell, and be inflamed as the result of a law of any kind, when it is self-evident that matter can have no pain nor inflammation" (p. 393).