I would like to share with you a healing I had in 2011. I went to Paris to visit my family with a friend who is not a Christian Scientist. The day after our arrival I fell as I was crossing a street. I got up with much difficulty. I was in great pain and could not walk anymore. I was transported to the emergency room in a nearby hospital to get an X-ray. The diagnosis was a fractured pelvis.
For many years now, I have been finding solutions to all my challenges through prayer. I chose not to stay in the hospital and went back to my niece’s place. From there, I called a Christian Science practitioner to pray for me. He immediately told me that there are no accidents in divine reality, and that I was not material, but spiritual, God’s beloved child.
The hospital had given me some painkillers to take home. I had been told that without painkillers I would not be able to hold up. But I decided not to take them because I believed with all my heart that prayer would be my best remedy and that our dear Father, God, would not abandon me. I filled my thought with the truth of God’s ever-presence. My family wanted me to stay in Paris, but I felt that I needed to go home, to a calmer place without so many worried thoughts around me. Moreover, when I fell, I’d hurt one side of my face, and it had turned black, and I could not open one of my eyes. That was drawing a lot of attention from everyone.
Two days later, my friend and I left Paris. My friend thought that I would not be able to stand a 600-kilometer trip sitting in the car. I assured her that all would be well. And indeed, thanks to the support of the practitioner and my own prayers, the trip went well.
Once at home, since I could not walk, I had to go see a doctor to get an official medical leave from work, which is mandatory in my country. The doctor told me that I would have to lie in bed for four months, and that I would be healed within about six months. He offered to get me some help at home, but I preferred not to. I felt that I could manage on my own. In the beginning this was difficult, since I wasn’t comfortable either lying down or sitting or staying upright. But after a week, I started walking around the apartment with two crutches. I still needed to stay home.
I prayed a lot with the following passage from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: “Take possession of your body, and govern its feeling and action. Rise in the strength of Spirit to resist all that is unlike good. God has made man capable of this, and nothing can vitiate the ability and power divinely bestowed on man” (p. 393).
There were moments when I wondered why this had happened to me or when I thought the pain would never subside, but deep inside, I never doubted that I would be healed. Hymn 189, from the Christian Science Hymnal, gave me great comfort, and in particular the beginning of it:
Mine eyes look toward the
mountains,
Help cometh from on high;
From God who never slumbers,
Whose care is ever nigh.
My foot shall not be moved,
My keeper is the Lord,
He never shall forsake me;
I trust me to His Word.
The situation was improving little by little. After three weeks, I could walk better. The practitioner kept supporting me with patience and love, reminding me what was true about my nature—perfect and exempt from all pain. I was then able to let go of the crutches. Week after week, I felt progress taking place. I could open the eye that had been injured, and my face returned to a normal color.
After three months, I had to have another medical visit in order to be allowed to go back to work. The doctor said that I had made a lot of progress, but that I would never be able to walk normally again, because of my age. I therefore prayed with firmness about this new challenge. I knew that time and age are human limitations, never created by God. God’s child has no beginning and no ending, but lives in the eternal now of Spirit.
About ten days later I felt completely healed. The healing has been permanent. I went back to my work as a Christian Science nurse, which demands me to be very active and to stand a lot. I also resumed all my other activities, including my commitments to my local branch church.
I am particularly grateful to the practitioner who helped, comforted, and supported me. I am filled with gratitude for this healing, and also for the opportunity I have to work as a Christian Science nurse, since it daily strengthens my certainty that all is possible with God.
Lausanne, Switzerland
