"Precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little and there a little." Isaiah 28:10
"Precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little and there a little." Isaiah 28:10
One of my great joys in life is to ride, and to compete my wonderful horse in the sport of Eventing. This includes dressage, show jumping, and cross country all in one competition. This past January I was schooling my young horse cross country, out in a huge, windy field. We were practicing jumping up a bank out of the water. My coach told me to let my horse figure out the distance to the up bank. I could see that he wasn’t doing a good job of it, but sat tight and didn’t interfere. He tripped on the up bank. The next thing I knew, I was on the ground and there was my horse on the ground in front of me. I was grateful that my protective vest had worked and that my horse got up and was fine. But I had a sharp pain in my shoulder every time I moved my arm forward. It turned out that I had broken my collar bone.
From the moment I sat up from the fall, I was flooded with light, calm, and the presence of God. I had been praying over the past year about accidents, knowing that God’s man never leaves the sureness and harmony of divine Principle. An accident was only a seeming departure from God’s control, which is impossible in the ever- present realm of God’s law. If there ever was the appearance of an accident, it could not affect me in any way, as I am always held in divine Love’s embrace. Any lapse would be healed and erased, as the real substance of my being would be my only reality.
It is said that a collar bone is the most painful of bone breaks. However, the only pain I felt was when I was at the hospital, where I passed out twice. The x-ray also showed a big gap between the two parts of the broken bone. After I left the hospital, I grounded myself in the thoughts sent to me by a beloved practitioner, and the pain disappeared. For good.
The practitioner said, “Nothing, NOTHING can break your relationship to God - not in the smallest degree. Nothing has happened to change your perfect reflection of Him. You are as beautifully formed as you ever were, and made of substance which can never break or deviate from perfection. You are ‘...unfallen, upright, pure, and free." And so is your beautiful horse. These mortal beliefs are UNKNOWN to God, and therefore unknown to you, because all you can ever know is unbroken harmony.”
My collar bone healed really quickly. I could feel real improvement daily. My husband kept commenting on how surprised he was at the speed of my recovery. Each week brought more freedom. At the end of the fist week I could move my arm more freely. I could ride without pain after 2 weeks. I started jumping again after 5 weeks. I was joyously and gratefully competing again within 7 weeks.
I know that I have always been complete and whole, with my harmony unbroken.