Testimony of Healing October 8, 2018 Issue

Healing of injury from a fall

Susan Lapointe

One midsummer Sunday afternoon, while gathering the supplies needed to wash our car, I hurried down our basement steps, slipped halfway down, and kind of crash-landed. In pain and feeling stunned, I had two immediate thoughts: “Here’s my opportunity to prove my growing conviction that my uninterrupted selfhood is wholly spiritual,” and, “That which is called physical law is actually constituted of theories that ultimately must yield to divine, metaphysical facts.”

I also remembered learning about this magazine’s founder, Mary Baker Eddy, and her life-changing healing after a fall on an icy sidewalk. The serious internal injuries were healed as she read a Bible account of one of Jesus’ healings, and as the result of her well-established confidence in God’s healing power.

Surely, I could feel confidence in line with all that I had learned and experienced of spiritual healing through studying and practicing Christian Science. Slowly I got up and continued gathering the car washing supplies, while I also continued assuring myself of expected release from the discomfort I felt. I went on to prepare supper, holding to the confidence I have in Christian Science and in God’s allness. I recalled the many healings I’d had through turning to the spiritual truths of Christian Science and seeing myself as God’s perfect spiritual idea—not partially, but completely, and not sometime in the future, but right now.

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