Testimony of Healing October 17, 2011 Issue

Growth on leg gone

Sally Smith

A little more than a year ago a peculiar, small growth appeared on my leg. As a Christian Scientist, I knew I could handle this situation through prayer.

I knew that it would be fruitless to accept the reality or existence of an abnormal, material growth, and then pray to try to get rid of it. Rather than focusing on an abnormal growth on my leg, I felt that I was being led to work on spiritual growth—growth in the discernment of my true spiritual identity and nature as a perfect, spiritual idea, or child, of God.

I thought of a relevant analogy: When my car is due for an oil change, a light appears on the dashboard illuminating the words “maintenance required.” When I see the light go on I don’t focus my efforts and energies on trying to make the light go off. The light is not the problem. Instead, I get the necessary servicing—the oil change—and then the light goes off.

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