At a recent Wednesday evening testimony meeting, the story of Eutychus (see Acts 20:7-12) reminded me of a healing in our family when one of our sons was in high school. He and a friend had decided to work that summer in a small town in Colorado where they were employed by a friend of ours in the construction business. This particular day they were painting a two-story house, using a ladder that had been placed on a scaffolding.
As our son climbed up the ladder, it slipped off the scaffolding. Everything came down, and he landed on the hard rock ground facedown. He was carried to the car and taken to the friend's house. My husband and I were out of the country at the time, so my son's friend called his own mother, also a Christian Scientist. She started praying for our son, who later told us that he slept off and on for two days, then felt like being up. From then on, he was completely normal and active.
School time was approaching, so the boys returned to their respective hometowns. Our son stayed with his grandparents two or three days until we returned home. We knew nothing of the incident until then, and the cuts and bruises that had been on his face were gone. I spoke with the mother of our son's friend who had so lovingly prayed for him, and I expressed our gratitude for her treatment. "Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off?" (Jer. 23:23) This was the Bible verse that came to my mind when our son told us about the incident.
