Testimony of Healing August 30, 2010 Issue

SYMPTOMS OF HEART TROUBLE GONE

ANN BLAMEY

Last year, over a period of several weeks, I began to experience symptoms that provoked a good deal of fear. They were the same symptoms my husband had encountered about a year earlier, which had been medically diagnosed as a heart attack.

I knew it was time for healing. I had experienced Christian Science healing many times before, and turning to prayer was a natural step. I was confident that Christian Science would bring a complete healing, and I felt strongly that the first step was for me to face down the fear that seemed to be consuming my thought, just as David met Goliath head-on.

As I went humbly to my Father-Mother God for comfort and direction, it became quite clear that I had to be focused on "casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ" (II Cor. 10:5). To help me do this, I called a Christian Science practitioner to support me in prayer. We discussed the idea of reflection—that I reflect God's flawless, perfect nature—and she pointed me to this helpful passage: "To live so as to keep human consciousness in constant relation with the divine, the spiritual, and the eternal, is to individualize infinite power; and this is Christian Science" (Mary Baker Eddy, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 160).