Testimony of Healing February 17, 2014 Issue

‘I stood up without pain’

Juliet Blake

Several years ago when I was living in New York City, I was rushing to work one morning and decided to take out two heavy bags of recycling. As I made my way down the steep and narrow steps of my building, I had no free hand to steady myself, and I lost my footing and went plummeting down the steps. My full body weight, as well as the weight of the bags, came down on my left knee.

After I collected myself, I arose and discovered I was unable to walk. It felt as if I had broken my knee—I could not put any weight on that leg at all.

So I sat down on the landing and proceeded to give myself a Christian Science treatment. Even though I was immobile and running late for work, I recall that my thinking did not become flooded with a lot of dark “what ifs.” I felt that I was calmly following Mary Baker Eddy’s instruction: “Let neither fear nor doubt overshadow your clear sense and calm trust, that the recognition of life harmonious—as Life eternally is—can destroy any painful sense of, or belief in, that which Life is not” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 495).

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