Testimony of Healing November 16, 2009 Issue

SEVERE HAND INJURY HEALED QUICKLY

TOM BLAIR

In a letter to one of her students, Mary Baker Eddy gave a definition of grace when she wrote: "God bless you, dear one, for the good you are doing. But be wise, calm, slow to judge, patient, pure, loving. These are the graces of Christian Science" (F00537, November 26, 1897, Letter to Julia Field-King, The Mary Baker Eddy Collection). It's been proved to me many times that these essential qualities in the practice of Christian Science are sure to help when one is in need of physical healing. One example was an experience I had when I was in the Army.

While stationed with the 101st Airborne Division at Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, as a new chaplain, I volunteered to go through a very rigorous training course called Air Assault School. This training included exercises where we would rappel out of helicopters (jump out and descend with ropes), climb up troop ladders into Chinook helicopters, go on ten-mile road marches with heavy backpacks, etc.

Late one afternoon, I was up in a helicopter, leaning out on the skid, or rail, of the helicopter, ready to rappel down a rope. As I jumped away from the helicopter, the rope from below pinned one of my hands to the skid and my leather glove came off. My first reaction was to grab hold of the rope as I slid down, but I quickly felt a burning sensation and used the inside of my arm to guide me down the rest of the way. When I landed on the ground moments later, three of my fingers were greatly damaged.

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