Severed fingertip healed

Michelle Boccanfuso Nanouche

While handling a very sharp knife, my husband cut himself, severing his fingertip. I quickly stepped in and firmly asked him to look away from his hand as I placed the tip back on and held it in place. He allowed me to bandage it, and I reminded him of other quick healings he had experienced through prayer, but he was in pain.

As we prayed, I remembered this passage from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: “When an accident happens, you think or exclaim, ‘I am hurt!’ Your thought is more powerful than your words, more powerful than the accident itself, to make the injury real.

“Now reverse the process. Declare that you are not hurt and understand the reason why, and you will find the ensuing good effects to be in exact proportion to your disbelief in physics, and your fidelity to divine metaphysics, confidence in God as All, which the Scriptures declare Him to be” (p. 397).

I told my husband that instead of dwelling on the accident, he could focus on healing. He could be confident of having a quick healing and had no reason to expect to have anything but a perfect finger; “the reason why” was that God, infinite divine Love, always cares perfectly for our needs. My husband agreed to think about perfect healing going on. The pain stopped immediately.

When I removed the bandage to clean the area two days later, the tip was reattached. By the end of the week, it had healed so perfectly that no scar remained.

We are both grateful for this healing through the practice of Christian Science.

Michelle Nanouche
Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France

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