As I think back over the years of my life, my heart overflows with gratitude for the many beautiful healings and the evidence of divine care that I've seen. Mere words cannot express my feelings of true happiness and joy, and the fulfillment that has been mine as a student of Mary Baker Eddy's book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

Recently I had an experience which proved to me that there is nothing that God cannot do, and that I can know what to do in an emergency situation. As a friend and I were walking across a dark parking lot, I fell. It appeared that I had broken my arm. My friend is a consecrated Christian Scientist and gently helped me up; all the way home we affirmed the truth of "the scientific statement of being" (Science and Health, p. 468). When I arrived home, another Christian Scientist friend was there to comfort and help me. I wondered aloud if I should go to the hospital to have the bone set. My friend was very kind in leaving me free to make my own decision about this.

Instantly I knew my decision and called a Christian Science practitioner. I wanted to rely radically (completely) on God for healing. A Christian Science nurse came and helped put my arm in a sling to give it support. This dear friend also helped me to bed and read to me from Science and Health. Two selections she read were the description of man (p. 475) and the answer to the question "Does brain think, and do nerves feel, and is there intelligence in matter?" (pp. 478–482).

All feelings of disturbance and all pain were gone almost instantly and did not return, although I did not yet have use of the arm. I slept all night, was up the next morning, and put in a full day's work.

This fall had occurred on a Sunday evening. The practitioner and I continued to pray, and in the early hours of Tuesday morning I woke to the sound of the bone going back into place.

Throughout the period of prayer, whenever I would become discouraged or impatient for complete use of the arm, the practitioner would encourage me to be gentle with myself—to wait patiently upon God. Then all irritation or impatience would fade away, into joyful expectancy of full healing.

In less than two weeks I did have full use of the arm and had not lost a single hour away from my job. It was the right arm that had been injured, and I am right-handed; nevertheless I was able to perform a great deal of written work necessary in my job. A co-worker helped me as needed. My prayers were revealing more of the truth to my consciousness each day. Although to all appearance a broken arm was healed, according to the practice of Christian Science I was knowing, praying, that man is never touched by accident, because God's law of harmony is uninterrupted. Through this prayer God healed me.

Most wonderful of all, although I am considered to be many years past the age of retirement, since this experience I have been able to perform long hours of physical work, and am stronger now than I've ever been in my life.

How very grateful humanity should be to Mrs. Eddy for her steadfastness and love in recording Christian Science so all can understand it! The lessons learned from this healing, and further along in my journey to the full recognition of man as God's beloved child.

Elouise Rust Thompson
Richardson, Texas