Healings within Healings Encourage Us to Go All the Way

While I was staying at a nursing facility, I experienced a healing within a healing. I was and still am working on a challenge, but this healing showed that we are always moving forward when we are sincere, having an "honest heart." I am so grateful for this evidence of God's ever-present love and power.

I was attending a bar-b-cue. I tripped and fell, face down, onto the pavement. But I got right up, put my sun glasses back on. and moved forward to get a plate of food for one of the other guests. I don't remember all the way I prayed, but I remember thinking of the story of the little girl who asked her older sister why she wasn't hurt when she fell out of the third story window. The older girl replied: "My body fell; but I was not in my body." I remembered thinking how that applied to me and I comfortably thought of it for a while and then forgot about it. I never sustained any ill effects and that was almost a year ago. An interesting sideline is that one of the volunteers saw me fall and get right up. She was encouraged and asked me how I worked. I told her and then gave her copies of some materials I was studying at the time. She said she read them right away and seemed delighted.

I think incidents like these encourage us to go forward with issues that appear to heal less easily. I read recently about a discussion of cycles of ups and downs. The comment was made that cycles could be seen as progressive, like a dot put on a bicycle wheel and going around and around, but always moving forward as the bike moved.

I am trusting that this is so in my case. I am encouraged to continue the "work in progress." I am so grateful for Christian Science and all the avenues of help that are available to us., God must really love us.