Testimony of Healing December 29, 2003 Issue

Prayer heals the effects of a mugging

Dee Miller

I suddenly found myself lying face down on a busy city sidewalk. Two young men had run up behind me, intent on grabbing my purse. One struck me on the shoulder and knocked me down, while the other tried to snatch my purse. I held on to it tightly. They were not able to grab the purse, but as I clutched the strap, I was pulled several feet along the sidewalk. Realizing their defeat, they ran off.

It was all so quick—it was hard to believe what had happened. People emerged from shops, offering to help. The friend with whom I'd just had dinner, a Christian Science practitioner, calmly thanked everyone for their concern, and told them I was all right. When I heard her, I thought at first, "I'm not so sure . . . ." My glasses were knocked off, and my face was flat against the concrete. But because my friend was a healer, I knew she had gone started to pray right away. I knew that with a lifetime of proving the healing power of Christian Science, she was seeing me right then as God's child—perfect, unfallen, unhurt.

Since I had experienced over 50 years of healings through spiritual means, I, too, started to pray. I thought of "the scientific statement of being" from Science and Health with Key to the SCriptures, (page 468) by Mary Baker Eddy. I considered each word, each idea, in this statement. The last two sentences are: "Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual." They came like a command to mentally shake off thoughts of what had just happened, and instead to focus on the truth of my spiritual identiity. I knew that as God's spiritual likeness, I could never be separated from His care and protection. Right where I was, God was there, too.

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