Testimony of Healing March 29, 2004 Issue

I could move my thumb again

Name removed by request

One day at school, I was running with a friend, and I tripped and fell on the cement. I held out my hand to stop myself, but my thumb got twisted in the palm of my hand. It hurt very badly, so after recess my mom picked me up, and I went home.

I called a Christian Science practitioner to help pray for me, and she told me about Hymn 324 in the Christian Science Hymnal. The last sentence in the first verse says, "Take my hands, and let them move/At the impulse of Thy love." I knew that God was controlling my hands and that He would not let anything bad happen to them. I also knew that pain isn't from God. So how could it keep my hands from moving properly, if God was controlling them?

The next day I went to my violin lesson. My thumb hurt a bit, so afterwards, I called the practitioner again. A few days later, my thumb stopped hurting, and I could move it around normally.

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