Injured hands healed

Martha Sarvis

While I was helping out at my son’s school, I caught a falling pole with my right hand, but the pole twisted out of my hand, snapping my thumb and breaking the finger nail into the quick. I kept affirming out loud that I was all right and silently that God was governing. I was able to finish the tasks, and continued to pray about my hand after I got home.

A couple of days later, I grabbed the handle of a pan that had just come out of a 450 degree oven with my bare left hand. The pain was severe. I stopped for a few minutes and prayed with “the scientific statement of being” in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy (see p. 468). I refused to give in to the pain.

I didn’t have much time because I needed to pick up my son from school. So it was “prayer on the go.”

On the drive to school, both my hands were throbbing. I realized this was animal magnetism—the belief that life is material and subject to accidents—trying to take my thoughts away from God. Then I recalled this passage from a hymn: “Take my hands, and let them move / At the impulse of Thy love” (Frances R. Havergal, Christian Science Hymnal, No. 324).

I found these words from the hymn, especially helpful: “Take my every thought, to use / In the way that Thou shalt choose.”

I had been ruminating over some things I was concerned about, and this insight alerted me that I needed to keep my thought on God. By the time I got to church for the Wednesday testimony meeting that night, the pain was gone, and there wasn’t even a mark on my left hand. Also, my right thumb began to make noticeable improvement, and by the end of the week was healed. I’m so grateful for the ready and effective aid of Christian Science.

Martha Sarvis
Boerne, Texas, US

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