‘This healing was my Christmas gift’

By Rosa Bobia

I have experienced joy, peace, and physical healings from the study of the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Last year I was in the kitchen helping with the Christmas dinner. As I opened the oven door to retrieve a dish, my hand came too close to the oven coils, and I burned my hand.

My immediate response was to look away from my hand and declare silently that I was OK and nothing had happened to harm me. Why? I did this because the spiritual truths that I have learned in my study of Christian Science and the Bible supported a dismissal of inharmony and a declaration of God’s, divine Love’s, power. As the image and likeness of God, I could reject any sense of pain. As a spiritual idea, my substance was not material, which meant that I did not have to accept the pain as true about me.

I continued to hold these ideas in thought, and, after a few minutes, the pain subsided. After a few more minutes, all discomfort ended. I looked at my hand, and all traces of the burn had disappeared. This healing was my Christmas gift. “Unwrapping” it, I felt the joy of being in the presence of the Christ, joy that had seemed to elude me for a while, which is the main reason this healing was especially significant to me.

I had been caring for my husband, and, during this time, I had felt somewhat separated from God. Now I was feeling proof of God’s care. This healing was not just about my hand. I’d felt God’s love more deeply. And it made me commit even more to strengthening my understanding of my relationship to God. This experience really changed me going forward.

As Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health, “The relations of God and man, divine Principle and idea, are indestructible in Science; and Science knows no lapse from nor return to harmony, but holds the divine order or spiritual law, in which God and all that He creates are perfect and eternal, to have remained unchanged in its eternal history” (pp. 470–471).

I can remember reading that statement for the first time many years ago. It was one of the greatest Ah-ha! moments in my study of Christian Science.

Proving the truth of that statement at Christmastime was a source of much joy.

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