Quick recovery from head injury

Susan Cooper

Nearly 17 years ago my husband and I began to prepare a small farming operation, having bought an acreage of land next to our home. We planned to rear alpacas and had to create a number of distinct field areas. That meant fixing some 250 posts into the ground.

I would like to share what happened one late afternoon, after I’d worked most of the day together in the fields with my husband. We were putting in some fence posts, using a post bumper, an instrument I can only describe as like a cast iron hollowed drainpipe about two feet long with handles on either side. I was holding the post, and as my husband lifted the post bumper, it caught the top of the post and crashed down on my head. I did not lose consciousness, but I slumped to the ground.

My first thought was “no condemnation.” I never, at any time, felt anything but great love for my husband, and as he called out to me, my only thought was that I didn’t want him to feel any blame. Within a minute I was able to get to my feet and realized there was profuse bleeding from a cut on my head. I had also badly bitten my tongue.

I began to make my way toward the house, claiming that I had never been separated from God for an instant, and neither had my husband. God, divine Mind, lovingly governs our every moment and action, and we are never outside His loving care.

I am grateful to say that at no time during this incident did I ever feel any fear.

As I approached the house, declaring my oneness with my Father-Mother God, I was able to make my way to the bathroom. My husband joined me and helped me get cleaned up, both of us knowing that in the kingdom of heaven, where we truly dwell as the sons and daughters of God, there has never been an accident. My mother, who was staying with us, came to join us, and both she and my husband were very supportive in their love and declaration of these spiritual truths.

The bleeding stopped almost immediately. I got cleaned up, and within an hour I was back outside, resuming the job of putting in the fence posts. My tongue also healed completely within a short time so that I was able to eat a meal that evening without any discomfort whatsoever, and to take my place as usual as First Reader in church the next morning. In fact, it never occurred to me that I would not be able to serve.

I believe this was a quick healing because there was no fear and none of us were at all impressed by the physical evidence suggesting injury. In fact, to me, the whole thing was a total nonevent. What I recall most about this healing is the love for and confidence everyone expressed in God, or Truth. This healing has proved to be a beacon of God’s love for me and all, in other challenges since then. I am incredibly grateful for Christian Science.

Susan Cooper
Flushing, Cornwall, England

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