Testimony of Healing November 7, 2005 Issue

FATHERED AND MOTHERED BY GOD

MARY-JEAN COWELL

About three years ago I tripped and fell flat on some broken concrete. Immediately I remembered this statement from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: "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" (p. 424). Thinking of this, I was able to deny to myself that accidents could happen, or that I could be injured, in God's sight. I got quickly to my feet, but as I walked, I realized my leg felt different. When I raised my pant leg, I was startled to see a long, deep gash. The wound looked very serious. I wondered at first if I should go to a hospital emergency room for stitches. But more than well-intentioned medical care, I wanted Christian Science treatment through prayer. I was able to walk to my car, drive home, and reach a Christian Science practitioner by phone for prayerful assistance.

The practitioner and I agreed that our prayers needed to focus with conviction on the truths in the aforementioned quotation. We needed to strive to realize that because "accidents are unknown to God," as His spiritual child I could not experience one. We also prayed to know that there was no sensation in matter, as stated in Science and Health in "the scientific statement of being" (see p. 468). We prayed to understand that my God-given identity was spiritual, and did not live in a material body.

The practitioner's wife offered to drive me to a nearby Christian Science nursing facility. Her cheerful thought and relaxed description of the care her family had received from Christian Science nurses supported my efforts to remain calm and fearless, even as I struggled sporadically with the "what if's" related to how this injury would affect my work as a dancer and choreographer.

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