The Open Fount
Effects from fall on ice healed through Christian Science prayer
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One winter I was out walking in the woods and slipped on the ice. I hit hard and the first place I felt
the landing was in my elbow, but many body parts seemed to have hit particularly hard. After I was
home, my head began to ache and that night when I went to bed my head was still hurting. The
severity of the pain kept awakening me.
As I prayed, I saw my body in a new light - as a sort of as an ID card; something that identified me as
an individual, but which was not actually part of my true being. I realized that if I dropped my driver’s
license (another kind of ID card) I would pick it up, wipe it off, and put it back where it belongs, but I
wouldn’t worry that my actual identity had been hurt. So it was the same with my body as an ID card;
regardless of what happened to it I didn’t have to worry that my true identity as the image and likeness
of God had been touched in any way. I still was and always had been whole and upright and not at
the mercy of pain or fear.
With that inspiration, I had an enlarged concept of my identity as a child of God and realized the pain
was totally gone. I fell asleep peacefully. When I awoke the next morning I remained totally free of
any pain or evidence of the fall. This healing has been permanent in every aspect.
A full account of this healing is on page 24 of the April 28, 2008 Christian Science Sentinel. It’s the
Sentinel with the cover topic, “A Reason to Hope.”
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