Testimony of Healing October 15, 2012 Issue

No more gangrene

Heidi H. Macari

One night when I was in high school, I injured my toe on a metal object while walking barefoot. I put a bandage on my toe and just went to bed. 

About a week later, the appearance of my toe was a bit disturbing, but I ignored it because I thought it would get better on its own. I didn’t show my toe to my parents. A couple of weeks after that, the problem looked so alarming that when my older adult sibling by chance happened to see it, he took me to the emergency room. The diagnosis was gangrene. I was told the toe should be amputated as soon as possible. 

When I came home, my mom immediately called a Christian Science practitioner to pray for me. I also spoke with the practitioner, who asked me to think about the following quote from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: “A spiritual idea has not a single element of error, and this truth removes properly whatever is offensive” (p. 463). 

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