Knee healed after auto accident

Several years ago, I was hit by a car while crossing a busy street in a large city. My knee was severely damaged and I was in a great deal of pain. A crowd gathered, and many comments were made about injury and shock.

Once I was able to focus, I realized that probably an ambulance had been sent for to take me to a hospital. I decided that where I really wanted to be was at home, where I could focus on the truths of Christian Science, which I knew from experience would heal me. Home was twenty miles away, and the easiest way to get there was to get on a commuter train four blocks away.

I hailed a cab, which took me to the train station. Still in great pain, I hobbled to the train, then called a Christian Science practitioner. I told him what had happened and asked him to pray for me. After sharing a few thoughts, he immediately started to give me Christian Science treatment. I also called my son and asked him to pick me up at the station near my home. On the way home from the station, I went to a drugstore and rented a crutch.

I stayed home from work for a few days and talked to the practitioner at least once a day. As I pondered the words of truth that the practitioner shared about man’s unbroken relationship to God, my thought was calmed and I began to feel some relief from the pain.

On the second or third day, as I was ending my conversation with the practitioner, he shared what I knew to be the spiritual perspective of what had occurred: “You know, this never happened.” Agreeing, but not thinking much about it, I said something like, “Yeah, yeah—thanks!” and we both hung up.

I don’t know if it was later that day or the next, but the truth of that statement—“This never happened”—dawned upon me. Evil can only claim to exist, to have a history, in a material world. A material world includes accidents, chance, long-standing problems, and diseases. But the infinite and omnipotent Father-Mother God is the only cause and creator. The universe He created is spiritual, and that spiritual universe is the only universe there is or can be.

In the spiritual realm of omnipotent good, evil has no history and will never have one. There is no chance—only constantly unfolding good. In God’s perfect universe, this accident never happened. And I knew that right now, man, God’s spiritual likeness, is free of any belief that an accident did happen.

After I realized the truth of the practitioner’s statement, the healing progressed rapidly. I went back to work, walking both to and from my commuter train. I used a cane for a week or two but was able to walk with much less discomfort and with continually improving mobility.

Another thing I learned from this experience was that human observations and judgments about a person’s situation cannot impede one’s progress and can have no effect on one’s God-given health. Everyone in my office knew I had been hit, because some had seen it happen, and my walking and limping was scrutinized on an almost moment-by-moment basis. But this did not hinder my healing. Finally, as I was no longer limping, the interest in what had happened to me ceased.

About a week or ten days after the incident, I was the best man in a wedding. This entailed standing for the better part of an hour, which I was able to do, although with some discomfort. Shortly after that the healing was complete. Since that time I have skied several times and participated in other athletic activities with no pain or problem.

“How are we healed?” one might ask. We are healed by the divine embracing the human. The Christian Science textbook assures us, “Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 494).