Over twenty years ago I experienced an instantaneous healing of injuries received in an automobile accident. For seven years before this healing I had lived without hope that the future held any happiness for me. An orthopedic specialist had taken X rays and told my parents that vertebrae were broken in my back. In order to walk, I wore both a steel brace to support my back and a lift on my left shoe. Treatment by specialists and two operations brought no relief from my suffering, and I had to spend much of my time in bed.
In my extremity-, I telephoned for a member of my family to come and« visit me. When she arrived, she said, "I have brought you the most precious gift I could find, and I know it will heal you." It was a copy of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. As I read the chapter on Prayer that night, I felt that God was very close to me, and I fell asleep. It was the first good natural sleep I had had for a long time, and my gratitude knew no bounds. The next morning I asked to be taken to a Christian Science practitioner.
She greeted me lovingly, asked no questions, and prayed silently for quite a while. Then she talked to me about my true self as a child of God, protected, loved, and governed at all times by the power of His goodness. She told me simple but profound truths about God's laws, the only true laws. I had never heard these things before, and my thought was so receptive that I became conscious only of good, God. I felt strength surge through me and knew that I was healed.
