Testimony of Healing December 9, 2019 Issue

Running freely again after a fall

Daniel Biwila

My jogging partner and I had been running for more than two hours, and it was after sunset when we finally arrived back near our starting point. In the dim light, I tripped and fell on something I couldn’t see. As I landed, I heard a dull crack and felt pain in my wrist. My knee and some toes were injured, too, and bleeding.

While we walked the remaining kilometers, I prayed to see myself more clearly as a spiritual idea of God whose being cannot be affected by anything but good. It was comforting to recall a statement by Mary Baker Eddy in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: “Accidents are unknown to God, or immortal Mind, and we must leave the mortal basis of belief and unite with the one Mind, in order to change the notion of chance to the proper sense of God’s unerring direction and thus bring out harmony” (p. 424).

For three days my right foot and arm were swollen, preventing me from walking, writing, or even cleaning my teeth properly. However, I remained firm in my understanding that man is not material and is not subject to injury. In reality, the body is controlled and governed by God, Spirit, who is infinite good.

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