Testimony of Healing August 19, 2013 Issue

Injured knee quickly healed

Kate Nicholls

“I’m fine” was my response to a friend’s concern. I had just slid on wet grass, which was very muddy after a recent snow, and my legs splayed in different directions. Struggling to stand, I became covered in mud, but immediately my friend set me on my feet, later explaining how her training as a Christian Science nurse had just “kicked in.” 

Later, I looked up some amusing definitions in a thesaurus for the word fine. I found, “blooming,” “rosy,” and “full of beans”—which, in Britain, means full of energy. I was in pain, caked in mud, and dealing with shock. I was far from rosy and full of beans. However, my declaration that I was fine was the reality of my spiritual perfection, and the prelude to my eventual healing. 

As I walked into my house covered in mud, my husband’s amusement soon changed as he saw my obvious pain, and he quickly helped clean me up. He is not a Christian Scientist, so I decided not to discuss the details of my injuries with him. I didn’t want him to be unnecessarily concerned. The injuries were alarming with one knee not looking a bit like the other. My husband knew that I needed to be “quiet with my books”—the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy—so he left me to my studies.

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