Testimony of Healing March 12, 2012 Issue

Prayer quickly heals injured knee

Jodie Maurer

During a landscape painting trip in Maine, I went water skiing with the family I was staying with. In an attempt to drop a ski, I fell and the skis awkwardly twisted my legs. I felt considerable pain in one of my knees, so I immediately turned to God for comfort, acknowledging His ever-present love for me. The boat driver and passenger came to assist me and also started sharing spiritual truths. This helped me as I strove to lift myself from the material sense of what happened to the spiritual sense of my being as a child of God, secure in His care.

When we returned to where I was staying, I called a Christian Science practitioner for support through prayer. Her immediate response was very loving, and she was firm in acknowledging the ever-presence of God’s laws, which govern His children. I was afraid I would have to end my trip early and return home because of an inability to drive or walk comfortably. She assured me that God was governing every action and event, and that I did not need to hold on to any fears. The love for God and man and the complete trust in His laws that I felt after talking with the practitioner helped me turn further away from a hurt body to a firmer understanding of my relationship with God. I knew that as His creation, my substance was spiritual and indestructible.

I sat silently communing with God. Jesus tells us to go into the closet when we pray (see Matthew 6:6). To establish this closet or mental sanctuary, I stopped replaying the incident in my thoughts, and obeyed the Bible’s command, “Be still, and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10). I had learned that acknowledging God’s presence through communion with Him—or through “stationary power, stillness, and strength” (Mary Baker Eddy, Retrospection and Introspection, p. 93)—is an effective way to uplift human thought from material sense to spiritual understanding. So I silently affirmed God’s presence, and acknowledged Him as the only Mind.