Testimony of Healing September 3, 2001 Issue

Broken bones healed through prayer

Beverly Maw

A few years ago, I slipped on some stairs and fell with my leg under me. My husband helped me hobble to the car and drove me to a clinic. The doctor there took X-rays that showed my ankle was broken in two places. He put a splint on my leg and suggested that I go to an orthopedist the next morning because he thought my ankle needed to be surgically pinned.

When I got home I called a Christian Science practitioner to help me pray for healing. As a basis for our prayers, we discussed these statements: "under divine Providence there can be no accidents, since there is no room for imperfection in perfection" Science and Health, p. 424), and "what you thought was pain in the bone or nerve, could only have been a belief of pain in matter" (Mary Baker Eddy, Miscellaneous Writings, p. 44). Soon the pain left, and I was able to sleep comfortably that night.