Testimony of Healing February 3, 2003 Issue

Knocked down—but not knocked out

Norm Bleichman

Early one morning before work I was jogging along a country road near our house. Rounding a corner and heading up a steep incline, I twisted my ankle. My misstep was so sudden and severe that I fell to the ground. I got up quickly and half-jogged, half-hobbled home. I felt that by continuing the activity I had set out to do, I could minimize the impact of the incident. Plucky, perhaps, but there was also an element of willfulness in it.

My ankle was somewhat uncomfortable when I got home, but I was mobile. I showered, dressed, and went to work. Then, when I got to work, the pain in my ankle became more intense. I'd been reading through Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures at this time—something I'd done before—and had some specific ideas from this reading that were of immediate help to me. One was: "Banish the belief that you can possibly entertain a single intruding pain which cannot be ruled out by the might of Mind, and in this way you can prevent the development of pain in the body" (p. 391).

The phrase that stood out to me was "the might of Mind." I knew that Mind was another name the author, Mary Baker Eddy, used for God, one that stood for supreme intelligence. I tried to picture how powerful this Mind was to expel all bodily pain—how single-minded it had to be regarding its own power.

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