My premonition was a call for healing prayer
Originally appeared on spirituality.com
Have you ever had a premonition of danger? I have! And I found that prayer can change the outcome so that the threatened event doesn’t occur.
A number of years ago, my husband and I, along with another couple, were vacationing in Canada. While at dinner one Sunday evening, I was overwhelmed suddenly with a forewarning of death concerning my dearly loved grandson, Christian. Soon we finished dinner and returned to our motel. Even though I tried to shake the feeling of impending danger, I couldn’t sleep.
About 2 am, I got out of bed and studied the Bible Lesson, taken from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. The subject was “Soul and Body,” and as I read in the early morning quiet, a shift began taking place in my thought. I recognized clearly that my grandson is always under God’s protection—known by God, loved by God, cherished by God eternally.
Trusting him to God’s care, I returned to bed and drifted off to a restful sleep.
An hour later, in southern California, Christian was asleep in the back seat of a car being driven by a fellow who was speeding down the highway. An accident occurred. According to the police report, the car overturned three times. The back door flew open and my grandson was thrown out, forcefully landing on the highway on his back.
Later, while describing the incident to me, Christian said he seemed to be outside his body and to see himself lying on the highway—an image that moved farther and farther away. Then he saw—just for a moment—his great-grandmother, my mother, who had passed on a couple of years before.
I knew that my mother, who had been an excellent Christian Science practitioner into her 92nd year, would not have accepted into her own thought that this dear great-grandchild of hers could be deprived of a proper continuity of life—even though it would seem he was right at the door of leaving his earthly experience.
After that glimpse of his great-grandmother, Christian began to view himself again lying on the highway—a view that drew closer and closer this time. He saw a bright light and then everything went black.
The next thing he was aware of was the presence of his dad, who had arrived at the hospital where the paramedics had taken Christian.
So what happened when the accident occurred—just one hour after I had found my peace? The boy was saved. This proved to me that the prayers and peace that came to me had prevented the premonition of death from coming to pass.
That night in the motel, when I was striving to remove from my thought this premonition of death—before the accident had even happened—I was confident that this foreboding did not come from God, eternal Life.
I had a choice: I could accept the premonition and be afraid of it, or I could reject it and heal it through prayer. I knew for sure that regardless of how persistent the heaviness of premonition was at that point, God, Life, Soul, was even more insistent that Life was expressing its qualities through His reflection, man, as stated in Genesis 1:27 : “. . . God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him . . . .”
I remembered reading in Science and Health that “the ancient prophets gained their foresight from a spiritual, incorporeal standpoint, not by foreshadowing evil and mistaking fact for fiction, —predicting the future from a groundwork of corporeality and human belief.” Further, Mrs Eddy says, “ . . . he who perceives the true idea of Life loses his belief in death.”
Was I recognizing more and more that the only acceptable purpose of this forewarning would have to be for the purpose of healing? Was I being called upon to overcome a “belief” in some threatening situation?
This was truly an opportunity for great spiritual growth for me and healing for my grandson. I intended to have this spiritual growth. I knew that with it would come healing for Christian—wherever he was. And although he was injured in the accident, he made a full recovery within a short time. The driver of the car survived also.
Today, about 17 years later, this young man is married. He and his wife have a home and a restaurant in Colorado, where last year he was awarded the honor of being the best businessman in the state.
I hope this testimony may help others realize the truth of Mrs. Eddy’s statement, “Life is, always has been, and ever will be independent of matter; for Life is God, and man is the idea of God, not formed materially but spiritually, and not subject to decay and dust.”
The Master Christ Jesus proved this. So did Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles; other individuals in the Bible; those who have followed in their footsteps. That same power of God, of Life, is with us all today, loving each one of us eternally.
The true idea of Life:
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