Testimony of Healing December 14, 2015 Issue

Daughter’s injuries healed

Kaye Cover with contributions from Kim A. Cover

One day recently, my adult daughter, Kim, was outside while her pup, Duncan, was nearby. She heard yelping and saw that a very large dog had grabbed Duncan by the head. She rushed over and attempted to pry open the dog’s jaws. After a brief struggle, the dog released Duncan and became calm and nonthreatening, even wagging its tail. My daughter’s pup had minor injuries and was OK, but Kim’s hands had been bitten several times as she’d intervened to save Duncan. People expressed alarm at the condition of her hands and suggested she go to the hospital’s emergency room.

When Kim got home, she called me for prayerful support. We talked about how as spiritual expressions of divine Love, neither she nor Duncan could be touched, harmed, or affected by anything material. Just as water and oil don’t mix, Spirit and matter (the real and unreal) don’t mix; we knew the spirituality and true existence of each of God’s ideas remained intact.

I reminded Kim of Mary Baker Eddy’s statement in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: “By adhering to the realities of eternal existence,—instead of reading disquisitions on the inconsistent supposition that death comes in obedience to the law of life, and that God punishes man for doing good,—one cannot suffer as the result of any labor of love, but grows stronger because of it” (p. 387). My daughter’s “labor of love” was to help her pup, and she explained to me that she felt no malice toward the other dog and was trusting in God for help, so we knew that she could experience no harmful effects.

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