Testimony of Healing November 27, 2006 Issue

'FASHIONED ANEW'

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"When autumn leaves start to fall ..." When I was in high school, I used to joke about a song with this refrain, telling my classmates it had been written just for me. It seemed that, every year, my hair used to fall in the autumn season, just like the leaves.

Well, a few years ago, I started losing my hair all year long. At first I did not want to pay too much attention to it, but gradually I started getting scared. Why was I losing my hair? Did I have a disease? Was it something serious? I turned to my Christian Science teacher for help in praying about it. She reminded me to "look away from the body into Truth and Love, the Principle of all happiness, harmony, and immortality," as Mary Baker Eddy wrote in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (p. 261).

It was hard to "not see" my falling hair, when it was all over the place—in my bath, on my pillow—you could have followed me "by the hair"! For a while, I became so panicked at the thought of going bald that I was tempted to take pills that were supposed to reduce hair loss and stimulate its growth. But I clearly remember feeling that this was not the way for me to go. I realized doing so would make me fall more into the world of fear, and that I would only lose the dominion over material circumstances I knew I had as a child of God. I did not want to lose the sense of God's certain love and protection. Putting my whole being at the mercy of matter, instead of God's loving spiritual laws—was that worth it? Definitely not.

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