Foot injury healed

One day several years ago, I read the article “Speedy Recovery—a Motorcyclist’s Story” by Lynde McCormick (see The Christian Science Journal, May 2011) and was very inspired by it. Later that morning, I was sitting at the computer working when the phone rang. I jumped up to answer it, not realizing that my foot had gone to sleep. My foot bent as I stepped on it, and down I went. As my foot regained feeling, it hurt a little, but I didn’t think much of it, and I went on with my normal activities.

That evening I had an orchestra concert rehearsal to go to, and ended up parking some distance from the auditorium. I was very excited—this concert was to be led by a wonderful conductor with whom I’d played years earlier, and we were playing a piece that I really enjoyed. At some point during the rehearsal, I became aware that my foot was hurting. By the end of the rehearsal, I was nearly in tears from the pain.

Thankfully, another violinist whose car was parked nearby lent me his cane and offered to drive me to my car. Yet even with the cane, I could barely get to his car because it was painful to put any weight on my foot. Several of my friends urged me to have my foot looked at by a doctor, since it might have been broken.

I was feeling fearful about the situation, so on my drive home I stopped and called my husband, asking him to call a Christian Science practitioner for some prayerful help. After arriving home, I struggled to do the normal things I do to wind down and get ready for bed. My husband lovingly assisted me as well as he could. When I got into bed, I thought again about Mr. McCormick’s article and reread it, knowing that I was under the governance of the same divine laws that operated in his case. That knowledge gave me comfort, and I was able to fall asleep trusting in those same laws of good.

At some point, I got up during the night and noticed that the pain had abated somewhat. That slight improvement encouraged me, although I still feared that I might not be able to play the concert. Yet it felt right for me to be in my appointed place, expressing joy, harmony, and freedom.

When I awoke in the morning, I was able to put weight on the foot, and I happily walked into my husband’s home office to show him that I was walking without a cane. He was pleased to see this—only a few hours before I had barely been able to make it up and down the stairs. I called the practitioner, rejoicing in the progress, and she told me she had been praying with the idea that man is not mortal—that in reality no accident had ever happened, and so I shouldn’t be fooled by trying to deal with the effects of something that never happened. She reminded me that all that is ever going on is God—meaning that God is the only cause, and that my experience can’t be determined or influenced by anything apart from Him.

I continued praying, and just a day or so later, I felt that the challenge had been met. The practitioner again reminded me that no accident had ever happened, and that I had never been anything but well. She mentioned the following citation from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: “The relations of God and man, divine Principle and idea, are indestructible in Science; and Science knows no lapse from nor return to harmony, but holds the divine order or spiritual law, in which God and all that He creates are perfect and eternal, to have remained unchanged in its eternal history” (p. 470–471 ).

The orchestra’s operations manager had planned to reserve me a special parking place the next day, but someone had already taken the reserved spot, and I ended up parking a couple of blocks away before the dress rehearsal. It didn’t matter, because I was completely free. There has been no more pain and no further problems with that foot. I am really grateful for this healing!

Dessie Arnold
Columbia City, Indiana, US