Testimony of Healing August 5, 2013 Issue

Sports injuries healed

Christopher Bordeaux

I am grateful for many sports-related injuries healed over the past 60 years. Some of these healings took place over a period of time, while others occurred instantaneously.

The first one I remember happened when I was eight years old. I ran into a fence on my bicycle, dislocating my little toe. The condition was healed with a calm assurance that God is ever present and omniactive—that is, that there is no action or movement outside of God’s harmonious action. My mother reassured me that I was the expression of God, which helped me to see myself as a spiritual idea under His constant care. The healing came instantaneously. That same day I was back outside, running in bare feet.

Many other healings followed. A notable one took place in college, when I developed a knee effusion, commonly known as “water on the knee.” I was a pole vaulter, and there was an important competition I needed to get ready for. I called on a Christian Science practitioner, who audibly walked me through the section in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy called “Mental Treatment Illustrated” on page 410. This was very helpful for me to better understand how to treat myself by knowing the truth about who I am. I learned how to allay the fear by knowing I was the spiritual reflection of God. That same hour, I prayed in seclusion and listened carefully to God’s direction on what to do. I had the “clear sense and calm trust” that, as Mrs. Eddy wrote, “the recognition of life harmonious—as Life eternally is—can destroy any painful sense of, or belief in, that which Life is not” (p. 495). That same hour I was healed, and that same day I competed in the pole vaulting track and field event.