Testimony of Healing August 13, 2012 Issue

Forgiveness completes a healing

Kay Keelor

A number of years ago I went downhill skiing. It was my first time. The colleague who went with me encouraged me to really go for it, since I picked it up pretty effortlessly. In fact, he encouraged me to ski down what I later found out was the third most challenging hill at the resort. On the way down I lost control and almost ran into a grove of pine trees. I was able to make myself fall before hitting the trees, but injured my knee in the process, bending it at an odd angle. With my skiing partner’s help, I was able to get myself up and then ski down the rest of the hill. But once I was in the lodge, the knee was painful, and I wasn’t able to stand on it.

Upon returning from the trip, I had to stay home a couple of days from my work at our branch church’s Christian Science Reading Room. I was really looking forward to the Wednesday evening testimony meeting at our church, though. There I knew I would hear the readings from our pastor—the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker
Eddy. I managed to get myself to the service with a lot of expectancy that I would hear healing ideas and inspiring testimonies. As I sat in the service, suddenly I felt an adjustment take place in my knee, and after the service, I walked out without limping. I am so grateful to Mrs. Eddy for her inspired insight that led her to provide these healing Wednesday services.

Although I was then able to walk effortlessly, once in a while I would still have pain in the knee that had been injured. About three years went by with this occasional difficulty. Then one day I realized that I had had a wonderful healing of a lump on the bottom of my foot (see “Painful condition in foot dissolved,” Sentinel, January 16 & 23, 2012, p. 40). I wondered why the pain in my knee hadn’t been healed at the same time. But as I thought about it, it became clear that this pain was an imposition on my thought and something that could be fully healed right then, just like the foot problem had been. It was not something that had to last and recur.

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