Testimony of Healing April 5, 1993 Issue

The most precious thing in the world to me is the small understanding...

Mark W. Unger with contributions from Valerie D. Unger

The most precious thing in the world to me is the small understanding of God I have gained through study and practice of Christian Science. Feeling close to our Father-Mother God has brought me many healings throughout my life.

One of the first healings I remember occurred when I was of grade-school age. While burning some pine needles, I also burned my finger. I recall being told to hold my hand under cold water to ease the pain; I did that for a while, but as soon as I turned off the water the pain would return. I thought the pain would take a long time to go away, and in response to this concern I thought, "I don't have to worry about having this pain for a long time; God is taking care of me, and this can be healed by turning to Him and knowing the truth about who I really am as God's perfect child." This kind of thinking resulted from my having attended a Christian Science Sunday School. I had learned what Jesus taught: "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (John).

Something I heard every week in Sunday School was "the scientific statement of being," read from the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. I began repeating that to myself and thinking about what it meant. It starts out: "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all." That made sense to me, and the pain went away immediately.

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