Testimony of Healing January 30, 1978 Issue

About fifteen years ago, while singing a strenuous role in a...

June Carroll

About fifteen years ago, while singing a strenuous role in a musical performed in an outdoor theatre-in-the-round, I was stricken with severe asthma attacks. When I finished the engagement, although the attacks of asthma were healed through Christian Science treatment, I felt I had torn something in my throat. Each time I tried to sing I would have a coughing spell, followed by an unnatural sensation in my throat. This persisted through the years. I prayed for a healing in a desultory way, but I never really faced the situation with consistent prayer.

Early last year, after I had returned from a particularly inspiring meeting of my Christian Science Students Association, I was asked to appear in a well-known club. I realized that this was an opportunity to sing praises unto a glorious God who has blessed my entire life with good. I put away all self-conscious, egotistical fear, beliefs of age and lack of stamina. My one objective was to glorify God through my singing, which was a God-given talent. Like the Psalmist, I sincerely wanted to "make a joyful noise unto the Lord" (Ps. 98:4). I tried to concern myself with gratefully giving to an audience, rather than getting applause or reward.

I acknowledged my perfection as an idea of God and knew that the opportunity to sing again publicly was the result of the spiritualization of thought that came about through the study of Mary Baker Eddy's magnificent statement (Science and Health, p. 494), "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need." Surely our human need is to learn more of God.

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