Testimony of Healing April 2, 1990 Issue

Some time ago, while serving as organist for a branch church,...

Virginia Riekse

Some time ago, while serving as organist for a branch church, I began to think that the organ was losing power and that the soloist was singing much softer than usual. But when I stood in front of a friend and could hardly hear him speak, I realized my hearing was the problem.

I continued as church organist, though with increasing difficulty. Years of successfully relying on God's healing power kept me from being afraid. Instead, I prayed about the situation. Through study of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, the Christian Science textbook, I devoted myself to learning more about perception, spiritual understanding, and comprehension. I felt the assurance of God's all-power as I pondered deeply this statement: "Sight, hearing, all the spiritual senses of man, are eternal. They cannot be lost. Their reality and immortality are in Spirit and understanding, not in matter,—hence their permanence." I was confident that God had made me, and was keeping me, whole.

One morning, uplifted by this spiritual study, I thought, "Right now I am God's child and, because He is perfect and all-pervasive, in reality I express that wholeness by reason of spiritual reflection." In that moment, full hearing returned. Once again the sound of the organ and the voice of the soloist soared.

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