Testimony of Healing December 2, 2019 Issue

Poison ivy reaction quickly disappears

Christine Whitney

This past summer I was preparing to travel abroad, and the night before my flight I was checking our delivery box on our driveway when I felt something brushing against my ankles. It was totally dark in the heavily wooded area in which we live, so I used my phone to illuminate the ground and saw that I was standing in a large expanse of poison ivy. I was in sandals, and my first thought was disappointment. I had a busy trip coming up, with a lot of activity and no time for an annoying condition such as a rash from poison ivy.

As I headed back to the house, I felt reassured by the thought, “It only touched your ankles a little bit. That can’t be too bad.” Although this reasoning wasn’t based on spiritual understanding and was therefore unreliable, it went unrecognized as such and remained uncorrected in my thought.

I rinsed off, went to bed, and forgot about it … until two days later, after arriving in Europe, when I wondered why I was scratching my ankles so much. It was then that I noticed the rash all over them.

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