Testimony of Healing April 18, 2005 Issue

NO LIMITS TO JOY AND HEALING

CHRIS DORMAN

My son had invited me to go on a three-day trip to New York City to see the Christo and Jeanne-Claude sculpture "The Gates." As a retired art teacher, I was thrilled at the prospect—being with my son, a professional photographer, and seeing the rhapsody of color and movement that was drawing thousands of viewers from around the world. There was little time for decisionmaking because the sculpture was to be dismantled in a few days.

I had concerns, however, about making the trip. Some months prior, I'd suffered the effects of a difficult fall in my apartment in the retirement building where I live. As I fell, I had heard a resounding crack, and I thought a bone in my knee might be broken. The pain was intense, and I couldn't get up.

My immediate response had been to pray with a passage from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures that I knew by heart: "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" (Mary Baker Eddy, p. 424). I continued to pray earnestly. I felt calmer, and more certain about what to do next.

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