My life in Christian Science has been full of many healings, starting with the healing of my nearly-severed right arm at the age of six. I had suffered an accident and was taken directly to a doctor's office and from there to a children's hospital. My mother was then new to Science but very strong in her faith in the power of a loving God to heal His children. She refused to authorize an amputation. There was no medical treatment except for the cleansing of all the wounds and placing the arm in a cradle to support it. With treatment from a Christian Science practitioner, the bone in the arm grew back together again over a period of months. The surgeon said it was a miracle, but of course it was the natural operation of the law of God.
Toward the end of a busy trip to Europe last May, I tried to catch and mount a London double-decker bus as it started away from the curb. Instead, I lost my grip and landed full length on the street. My husband jumped off the moving bus to help me.
Was I all right? At first I could not answer him. But remembering Mrs. Eddy's instruction "Declare that you are not hurt and understand the reason why ..." (Science and Health, p. 397), I repeated those reasons to myself silently and when he reached me, assured him that I was not hurt. I kept praying as I claimed my present perfection in Spirit, with the knowledge that there can be no accident in divine consciousness. God created man perfect in His image and likeness. God's man, therefore, is a spiritual idea, not a physical body nor subject to material laws of any kind.
