Quick recovery from ice hockey injury

Ron Lundgren

I have been retired from my job as an airline pilot for eight years. This has allowed me time to enjoy my love of hockey by playing pickup games with friends at noontime twice a week. I love the exercise, the exhilaration of the sport, and the lasting friendships I have made.

However, one day a puck was shot into my face. It struck me just above the upper lip and just below the center of my nose, severely cutting me. After the puck struck me, I skated away and declared quietly to myself that accidents are no part of God's kingdom. He knows only good. All that He has created is in perfect harmony. What was going through my mind was a passage from page 424 of Science and Health. It reads: "Accidents are unknown to God, or immortal Mind, and we must leave the mortal basis of belief and unite with the one Mind, in order to change the notion of chance to the proper sense of God's unerring direction and thus bring out harmony."

Several players who looked at the cut said I should go to a hospital emergency room. They estimated it would take about twenty stitches to close it. I valued their concern and told them so. Strengthened by my trust in God, I told the other players I would be fine. They needn't worry. I'd get myself home and work things out.

I knew it would have been easy to go to the emergency room and have a doctor sew up my cut, but I wanted to put my entire trust in God's hands and let Him do the healing, as the Bible encourages: "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding" (Prov. 3:5)

Before I left the parking lot, I called my wife to pray with me to help calm my thoughts. By the time I got home, I was feeling much better, and I sat down to study Science and Health and the Bible, and read some of the Christian Science magazines. The next few days I relied only on prayer based on the writings of Mary Baker Eddy for my healing.

Within three days, during which our prayers continued, the cut had completely healed, and within five days you could not tell that I had been hit by a hockey puck. I am very grateful for this quick healing. And, of course, I am still playing hockey!

Ron Lundgren
Westlake Village, California

Send a comment to the editors

NEXT IN THIS ISSUE

Testimony of Healing

'Finally, I belonged'

June 30, 2003

Contents

We'd love to hear from you!

Easily submit your testimonies, articles, and poems online.

Submit