Although our vacation during the summer of 1996 was spent recovering from a near fatal auto accident, I can honestly say it was our best vacation ever. No pleasurable vacation pursuit could have equaled the four weeks my husband and I spent learning and demonstrating that Life is not in matter, either to be enjoyed or to suffer from.
The first five days of this experience were spent in two Canadian hospitals while arrangements were made to transport us to a Christian Science nursing facility in the United States. The hospitals were reluctant to release us because their examinations and X-rays showed my husband to have sustained a broken neck, fractures at the base of the vertebrae, fractured ribs, head injuries, and numerous facial cuts embedded with mud and glass. Medical examinations showed me to have facial bruises, arm lacerations, a badly twisted leg and ankle, a fractured clavicle, and broken ribs that posed a danger of injury to heart and lungs.
Our decision to rely on prayer so concerned the internist that he telephoned the Christian Science practitioner who was treating us for approval of our decision. She told him that he could trust our decision to rely entirely on God. The internist was then willing to do this.
