Testimony of Healing November 28, 2005 Issue

ALWAYS 'SAFE IN THE SUBSTANCE OF SOUL'

SONDRA ELKINS

Several years ago while my husband and I were living in Arizona, we took off for Telluride, Colorado—our favorite place to go cross-country skiing.

On the last day of skiing, a blizzard swept through the area, completely covering all the trails. After the storm subsided, we went back outside with a ski instructor to break new trails. At one point, as I started down a steep incline, I fell and twisted one of my hands into an awkward position. Though there was no pain, I immediately began to acknowledge in prayer my God-given freedom from accidents and their effects. I prayed with the truth of my likeness to God, and that I was therefore always safely held in God's perfection. In a few moments, I was able to get up and continue skiing freely.

Later that evening however, when we returned to our condo, I glanced at my thumb and saw that it was greatly discolored and swollen several times its normal size. Suddenly I became fearful about the possible seriousness of the injury, and with my fear came a sharp pain in the thumb, which had been completely absent until that moment. Before seeing my thumb, I hadn't even realized that it had been injured, and it was as though fear was the door through which pain and concern had now gained a foothold.

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