Testimony of Healing December 26, 2011 Issue

No evidence of burns

Becky Barrett-Alford

Recently, my husband and I went to a beautiful Christian Science church service and visited an outside bazaar at a nearby city. Several hours after we returned home, I removed a roast from the oven and placed it on a trivet. I turned to get plates from the cupboards, then turned back to the roast and noticed it was not sitting straight. Without thinking, I reached over—not wearing oven mitts—and picked it up by the handles of the pan.

It was several seconds before I realized what had happened. I was able to put the pan back down and avoided dropping it, but both of my hands were severely burned and I screamed. My husband came quickly into the kitchen to see what was the matter.

Right then, I made the decision to handle the incident through prayer. I went outside on the patio to be by myself. I knew that God never sees or recognizes an accident, and that I didn’t have to let a wonderful day be ruined by the picture of burned hands. I thought of Mary Baker Eddy’s statement in Science and Health: “Undisturbed amid the jarring testimony of the material senses, Science, still enthroned, is unfolding to mortals the immutable, harmonious, divine Principle,—is unfolding Life and the universe, ever present and eternal” (p. 306).

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