Testimony of Healing October 21, 2002 Issue

Baby's broken leg quickly healed

Rebecca Odegaard

About a year ago I watched our daughter Kenzie joyfully walk up a church aisle to be married. It was particularly sweet to see her lovely, poised march, because when she was a baby, we were told that she would always have a noticeable limp.

We were living in Holland at the time, and Kenzie was just eighteen months old. One evening she fell down a steep flight of stairs and landed on a marble threshold. I took her to me, and she quieted. We called a Christian Science practitioner right away to pray for her well-being, because we trusted the power of God to heal over all else. I spent the night with Kenzie in my arms because she was still uncomfortable. One of the facts I considered in prayer was that we are each under God's control at all times and that "under divine Providence there can be no accidents, since there is no room for imperfection in perfection" (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 424).

In the morning I realized that something was wrong with Kenzie's legs—she was protective of them. My husband and I decided to take her to the village doctor to see if something was broken. He told us that he was fairly sure her leg was broken, but he didn't have the equipment to determine that for certain. He sent us to a hospital in Amsterdam, where it was confirmed that she had a fractured leg.

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