Testimony of Healing April 14, 2014 ISSUE

Sunday School class and healing

Aaron Thorne-Shepard

I’m 19 and studying to become a cabinet and furniture maker and am taking a lot of wood shop classes. I really enjoy this activity, and some days I’m at the shop for eight to ten hours at a time. Because of my enthusiasm for wood shop, my instructor offered me an opportunity to do additional work with him on some of his commercial projects and to learn even more about woodworking.

One Sunday evening, I was working with him on one of those commercial projects. We were working on a set of ten “bug boxes” that are designed to raise crickets, lady bugs, etc., for sale in local stores. We had been working on the boxes for a while, and it was my first time using a nail gun. About ten p.m., I was still working and was starting to get a little tired. I accidentally shot my hand with a two-and-a-half-inch nail.

When my teacher saw what had happened, the nail sticking out of my hand and my hand shaking from the shock, he was concerned. After I removed the nail, he gave me some things to clean the wound with and put a bandage on it. Shortly after that, he took me home.

While I was cleaning the wound, I was also thinking about the Christian Science Sunday School class I had been in earlier that day. That week’s Christian Science Bible Lesson had been on Soul, a synonym for God, and I remembered talking with my Sunday School teacher about the fact that there is only beauty in Soul. I also knew from Sunday School that man is God’s, Soul’s, reflection and is made in Soul’s image.

As I prayed more, I remembered that as the image of God, or Soul, I could have nothing ugly attached to me. I reflect and experience only beauty. I also thought about how the nail in my hand had been an ugly mistake and that it could not affect me as God’s image.

When I got home I went straight to bed. When I got up the next morning, there was hardly a mark on my hand where the nail had been. I was able to spend the entire day back in the wood shop without any pain and with no limitation on my activities. I’m very grateful for the lessons I’m learning in Sunday School and for Christian Science.

Aaron Thorne-Shepard
Norco, California, US

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