Testimony of Healing July 12, 2004 Issue

A regeneration in thought brings healing

Roberta Brown Wallace

Several years ago, I badly twisted my knee while playing racquetball. The injury was extremely painful and put me on crutches for several days. Used to turning to God for peace of mind in unsettling situations such as this one, I prayed. My prayer was at first mingled with feelings of anger about the injury occurring in the first place. But I soon realized that this double-minded thinking was not going to work.

A verse from the Bible kept coming to me: "A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways" (James 1:8).

Needing stability of thought and relief from the pain and shock of the injury, as well as an ability to walk, I took this truth to heart. I disciplined myself to see God as good—and the only presence—expecting, in turn, my mental peace to return and my knee to heal. My prayer at the time was that simple. I don't recall any more specific prayerful thoughts than these two ideas. I asked a Christian Science practitioner to help me in the first few hours of the injury and then prayed on my own after about two days.

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