Testimony of Healing May 4, 2015 Issue

Healed after a fall

Victoria Fredrickson

One evening, a relative and I were walking down a stone pathway, when my relative tripped and began to fall. I reached out to grab her and hold her up but ended up falling with her instead. I landed chin-first on the stone pathway.

Immediately, a thought that had come to me the previous week, as I’d been praying about the bombing at the Boston Marathon, came to me again: “The only thing that has an impact is Love.” In praying after the Marathon, I had held to the fact that the allness and onlyness of divine Love leaves no room for another power to act, impact, or exist. I was so grateful for that clear message when I fell, because I felt its comforting truth and did not feel any harmful impact with the sidewalk.

I quickly got up and helped my relative up. My chin was bleeding, and my relative also had an injury that needed bandaging, so we went to get help from a Christian Science nurse. I had previously heard this nurse share the idea that an emergency is a time to “emerge and see”—to emerge from our material beliefs and spiritually see God’s perfection. I shared this idea with my relative, and we both felt a sweet assurance of God’s ever-present care and comfort on the scene with us.

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