Testimony of Healing April 20, 2026 Issue

Rapid healing of a deep cut

Jill Longanecker-Wiedman

I was using a knife to cut a dinner roll that I was holding in my hand, and I was hurrying because relatives were to arrive shortly. The knife quickly sliced right through the roll and into my hand. It felt like the deepest cut I’d ever had. I yelled out in pain and was quite stunned for an instant.

I resisted looking at the injury, but fearful images of what my hand might look like and what I might have to deal with flooded my thought. I bent over the kitchen sink in prayer.

The first thing that came to thought was the phrase “disbelief in physics.” Mary Baker Eddy states in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: “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.

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