Testimony of Healing May 5, 2014 Issue

Quick healing of finger

Kathryn Knox

I was adjusting equipment for sit-ups at the exercise club when a whole ramp came off a bar and slammed down into the bottom metal brace, wedging the joint of my right index finger between the two. The pain was immediately excruciating, but I was able to move the equipment away and then sat for a moment praying. When I briefly glanced at my finger, it was bluish-purple and starting to swell. Rather than giving this picture my attention, I chose to turn my thought to God.

When an accident occurs, pictures of what seems to have happened and its effects, such as bruises or breaks, come immediately and vividly to thought. From my own experience I’ve found that this “picturing process” can make an accident more frightening and overwhelming, and its effects more difficult to heal. In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy clarifies: “When an accident happens, you think or exclaim, ‘I am hurt!’ Your thought is more powerful than your words, more powerful than the accident itself, to make the injury real.

“Now reverse the process. Declare that you are not hurt and understand the reason why, and you will find the ensuing good effects to be in exact proportion to your disbelief in physics, and your fidelity to divine metaphysics, confidence in God as All, which the Scriptures declare Him to be” (p. 397). I understood that we are free to immediately turn in thought to the spiritual truths about man as stated in the Bible. Man (a generic term that includes both men and women), created in the image and likeness of God (see Genesis 1:26, 27), is spiritual and perfect and can’t be injured or corrupted in any way.

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