Testimony of Healing April 28, 2008 Issue

FREE FROM THE EFFECTS OF A FALL

SUE HOLZBERLEIN

One day this past winter, when I was out walking in the woods, I fell quite suddenly on some ice. I hit the ground hard, landing first on my elbow, causing a great deal of pain.

I've had many healings through prayer in Christian Science, so I had the confidence to rely on prayer this time too. As I lay there looking up at the trees, the first thought that came to me was, "I'm unfallen, upright, pure, and free!" I knew those words from studying Science and Health. Here's the complete sentence: "Through discernment of the spiritual opposite of materiality, even the way through Christ, Truth, man will reopen with the key of divine Science the gates of Paradise which human beliefs have closed, and will find himself unfallen, upright, pure, and free, not needing to consult almanacs for the probabilities either of his life or of the weather, not needing to study brainology to learn how much of a man he is" (p. 171).

To me, claiming the opposite of what had physically happened—that I was unfallen because my identity was spiritual—meant that I could reject self-pity, pain, and any doubt that the power of the Christ, Truth, was always protecting me.

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