Testimony of Healing August 31, 2009 Issue

FREE FROM PAIN AND INJURY

LORIE GRATIS HARRIS

On a busy Sunday morning, the day before my wedding a few months ago, I was rushing around the house, preparing to leave for one last meeting I had squeezed in. On my way down into my cellar, I tripped and fell down the steps. I landed on a very small carpeted portion of the floor. It was soft and cool, and as I lay there, I was grateful that I'd landed in that spot.

I was taken by complete surprise by this, and one of my first thoughts was, "It serves me right—I should be going to church this morning." Almost as soon as the thought of punishment in relation to church absence came into my thought, it was gently replaced with the awareness that this troubling thought couldn't be accurate.

God is good, Love itself. And I realized that all over the world, right then, there were people in church offering prayers for the congregation. Wasn't I part of that congregation, whether I was in a church building or not? I'd come to see that Church had little to do with a building. Mary Baker Eddy's characterization of Church, in part, is "the structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle" (Science and Health, p. 583).