Protection When Foot Ran Over

One day I was walking through our city – it was busy day, lots of people. It was a long walk, so I was praying as I walked. We stopped at the pedestrian lights, when out of nowhere came a man with a heavy trolley and ran his trolley right over my foot. When it hit my foot, I felt the trolley wheel graze the top front section. Somehow my foot had done an immediate fold-in-half under itself. It was over in a second, but the man and all the by-standers and my husband who all saw what happened positively gasped – “are you OK?” I just stood there saying to myself within my own thinking: Thank you God, that would have been so bad were it not for you! When I spoke, I reassured my husband and those around, still marvelling within at what had just happened.

When we got home – about 15 minutes later – I took my shoe off and had a quick peak at the area – a bit of swelling, and a kind of fold mark underneath my foot. I heard a clicking sound when I moved my toes – and when I heard that, I then I felt very angry. I fell into the trap of ruminating – something I had done for years before finding this Church, even in the face of incredible healing by God. I often would ruminate, and I was doing it again. Even though God had just saved my toe from being crushed – here I was falling into the same trap – ruminating: Why did that guy do that? Why me? But through the precious and holy teachings at this Church – through the teaching and citations I have been lovingly given by our practitioner at Plainfield, I knew my human rage was wrong – something not to be indulged, not to engage in, no matter how real it felt. So I rebuked myself! “Imogene just stop right there! Haven’t you just been healed? Hasn’t God just saved you? Don’t you think you owe it to God to be thankful? … Truly thankful for His magnificent care?” With that, I felt so sorry and very humbly apologised to our dear God, and spent some proper time in thanking Him. At this point I noticed that my foot had been responding to that error – it had become painful, hot to the touch and very swollen. My kind husband helped me, propped up my foot, and I closed my eyes and prayed some more, listening to the Plainfield reader, the Truth of the words pouring through me giving much comfort and removing that human anger and then I fell asleep in my chair.

When I woke a few minutes later the pain and the heat and the swelling were all gone – and I laughed when my husband asked – “feeling better?” I laughed and said “yes – it is all better now!” Next day woke up, all was well just the tiniest mark of a bruise, no swelling, I could walk no problems with the toe. So I am so grateful to be learning the importance of praying aright with the Truth that heals and the Truth that rebukes – sometimes self rebuke if necessary! We are taught so clearly here how to keep our thought in the right place – because there is never an excuse to not thank God. There is never an excuse to indulge in human anger. We receive such clear teaching here in the pure practice of Christian Science and I am so grateful to be getting better and more consistent in honouring God for all the good that He is always doing. Thank you to our practitioners at this Church. Thank you God for saving my big toe and for forgiving my trespass. Thank you Christ Jesus, and thank you Mary Baker Eddy.