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Age no barrier to healing a broken arm
I am a senior citizen living in a residence designed for active seniors. A couple of years ago, I must have fallen getting out of bed. A nurse who came to my room to awaken me found me lying on the floor between my bed and the adjacent sofa. I was not aware of having fallen, and I may have lost consciousness for a while. But at the time the nurse helped me, I was conscious, and discovered that my left arm was useless from the shoulder to my fingertips.
At my request, the nurse called a Christian Science practitioner who had prayed for me on other occasions and told her about my condition. The practitioner immediately began to pray for me. She called back to remind me of something familiar to me, that "accidents are unknown to God, or immortal Mind," a statement in Mary Baker Eddy's book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (p. 424). Actually, this statement had been my first thought after regaining consciousness and becoming aware of my situation.
I had an X-ray taken at a local clinic, but had no further medical treatment. The X-ray showed that my arm had been fractured at the shoulder.
Because good is omni-act ion, it was the only action going on in my life.
Over the next six weeks I was in touch constantly with the practitioner. She suggested that I think about the spiritual significance of the word good as described in Science and Health. It explains that good is "God; Spirit; omnipotence; omnipresence; omni-action" (p. 587). The practitioner mentioned that this is the only place in the book where the word omni-action is used. Because good is omni-action, she explained, it was the only action going on in my life, and it operated as a law, governing me mentally and physically.
I remember we also talked about Jesus' healing works, as related in the Gospels. And we discussed another statement in Science and Health: "Mind [God], joyous in strength, dwells in the realm of Mind. Mind's infinite ideas run and disport themselves" (p. 514). I often reminded myself that I was Mind's infinite idea, and therefore I could "run and disport" myself.
I regained the use of my left arm gradually. But when the healing of discoloration and other symptoms occurred, it came fairly quickly. Today, I can do everything I used to be able to do with that arm, including participating in the dance classes that I enjoy. Now it is hard to know which arm was broken.
I am very grateful for this healing, which I ascribe to the Christpower that was evident in the practitioner's prayers for me, and to the stalwart help of the nurses and other staff members at my residence. But I believe the healing also was due to my own persistence in refusing to admit that God would allow me to become disabled. This experience has made me freshly grateful to my Father-Mother God, to Christ Jesus, and to Mary Baker Eddy for her book Science and Health, which I have studied many years.
Kiyoko Yada
Princeton, New Jersey

July 28, 2003 issue
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