Testimony of Healing July 9, 2012 Issue

Foot injury healed

Jeff Shepard

It was a brisk Friday morning and I was out feeding our horses. As I usually do, I let the horses out of their stalls to stretch their legs. And as I let them out, I gave them some pieces of carrot. Well, this morning our mare, Rory, was so intent on her piece of carrot that she accidentally stepped on my left foot as she came out of the stall. She had never done anything like that before and it startled both of us!

Rory immediately turned to her right and moved quickly to get off my foot. As she turned and started moving away, she hit me with her shoulder and knocked me to the ground. All this happened in a matter of one or two seconds. I hit the ground hard, and my foot began to throb with pain. It flashed through my thought that having a full-grown horse step on my foot probably meant broken bones.

My immediate reaction was to say “No!” aloud. I then declared out loud that there could be no accidents in God’s creation, where everything is “very good” (Genesis 1:31). I voiced my objections to this situation in order to help move my thought away from the pain and the possibility of broken bones and guide it toward consideration of God’s unbroken creation. I then began to pray silently with the idea that “accidents are unknown to God . . .” (Science and Health, p. 424) and therefore cannot be part of my experience, because God is all-powerful and it is impossible for me to be separated from God’s love and care.