Testimony of Healing September 24, 2001 Issue

A spiritual journey

Joy Ellen Booth

While traveling in Greece a couple of summers ago, I was hurt in an accident when a metal part of the motorcycle I was riding cut a large, deep wound in my calf. I was stunned and probably in shock, but I was able to assure the concerned onlookers that I was all right and that I was relying on God right then and there as my Physician.

As I took my husband's shirt and wrapped my leg to try to stop the bleeding, I reached out in prayer to God for comfort and direction. But my thoughts seemed to be numb. I was desperately searching for any spiritual truth that would calm me and assure me that God was present. It wasn't until my husband was able to call a Christian Science practitioner to help us pray that I finally began to feel hopeful and gain some clarity of thought.

The practitioner was firm and fearless, and assured us that harmony was a fact. He said that we were on a spiritual journey — a mental journey — and that my body would respond to my mental state. I prayed to increase my understanding that the only mentality was the one Mind and that I was an expression of divine intelligence. I felt reassured that both my husband and I would be led by God's angels—comforting messages of His power and care — to feel and know what was true about me as God's child. I prayed that God would help me see myself as He saw me, safe and perfect.

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