Article January 2, 2012 Issue

Freed from dark sexual thoughts

Name withheld

I’d like to tell you about a healing that’s been complete for over eleven years now. It’s a healing I’ve never spoken about with anyone until now. 

Along my journey, I learned that fear would try to limit us in our individual spiritual growth. It would rob us of our success in life and of our healings. Fear would hold us back from living up to our own God-given goodness and potential. 

But I’ve learned that “. . . self-denial, sincerity, Christianity, and persistence alone win the prize . . .” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health, p. 462), and it was through such persistence in prayer that I was healed of feeling shackled to an array of very dark thoughts and fears. I used to think that my problem was too terrible or too ingrained within me for any form of treatment to heal me. I believed that I was helpless. But I was proven wrong. Christian Science saved me, and I can’t begin to tell you how thankful I am.