Testimony of Healing December 1, 2003 Issue

A choice for spiritual healing of severe injury

Catharine Brant with contributions from Bill Brant

It was a beautiful spring day, and cool breezes were sweeping through the open windows of our home. Our youngest teenage son was outside mowing the lawn. The mower stopped. Then I heard a cry that filled me with fear: I ran out and saw that my son's right hand was covered with blood. He was screaming as I brought him into the house. I loosely wrapped his hand in a towel, and immediately began to pray.

My first thought was a statement from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: "Accidents are unknown to God ..." (Mary Baker Eddy, p. 424). I firmly declared this out loud. I also recalled another passage from Science and Health, which was close to my heart because of the healing it had brought in my own life. It says: "When an accident happens, you think or exclaim, 'I am hurt!' ...

"Now reverse the process. Declare that you are not hurt and understand the reason why, and you will find the ensuing good effects to be in exact proportion to your disbelief in physics, and your fidelity to divine metaphysics, confidence in God as All, which the Scriptures declare Him to be" (p. 397). I knew that God was the source of all good, never causing injury to His beloved children. Any lapse in His harmonious government of creation was an impossibility. These spiritual facts precluded the possibility of chance or accident. I trusted that prayer, "fidelity to divine metaphysics," was the remedy we could depend on in this situation, and that healing would be the outcome.

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