A number of years ago my husband and I moved to the Ozarks and rented a house while ours was being built. Early that December, after a heavy snowfall, I went to visit neighbors a half mile away. I started home at dusk, taking a short cut through some oak and pine woods. As I was making my way through the trees, I accidentally stepped on a log that was frozen and covered with snow. I fell and then heard and felt bones in my ankle snap. After that I blacked out. When I regained consciousness, my first thought was, "Man cannot fall." I knew that in Science, man is always spiritually upright and free. But then came the question, "How will I get home?" Dragging the broken limb seemed all I could do. So I started through a thicket, then made my way through dense brush. Scratched and bleeding from the brambles, I arrived at a narrow lane that I had to cross to reach our uphill, winding driveway. Slowly I managed to crawl over the frozen ruts in the lane. Then inch by inch I crept up our driveway—a distance of eight hundred feet—frequently blacking out.
When I reached home, my husband quickly called a Christian Science practitioner who lived about a mile away. He and his wife came at once. Since it was obvious that there were broken bones, we decided that, under the circumstances, I should have them set. On the way to a clinic about twenty miles away, the practitioner's wife and I mentally clung to this sentence from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 574): "The very circumstance, which your suffering sense deems wrathful and afflictive, Love can make an angel entertained unawares."
At the clinic X-rays were taken. They showed that the ankle was crushed; several bones were broken. The doctor set the bones and put my leg in a cast from the knee down. As the bones were being set I held to this from Science and Health (p. 228): "There is no power apart from God. Omnipotence has all-power, and to acknowledge any other power is to dishonor God."
