Testimony of Healing July 22, 2013 Issue

Four lessons and a healing

Karen Sevaly

About a year ago I got a small business website up and running, and was feeling a great sense of success and gratitude. This website was the culmination of an idea I’d had to help promote Christian Science—albeit in a small way—and I was extremely pleased.

The next morning, I logged on to my computer and went back to the site to tweak a few things. About an hour and a half later, I suddenly realized that I couldn’t raise myself from my chair. Standing, let alone walking across the room, seemed impossible as my back had tightened up and wouldn’t allow me to move.

I immediately realized that this was simply an attack, an erroneous belief trying to tell me that I could be harmed for doing good and living Christian Science. I remembered Mary Baker Eddy’s loving response to such thinking where she states, “Whatever it is your duty to do, you can do without harm to yourself” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 385). I reasoned that God is only good, and He certainly can never experience pain or immobility. I humbly reasoned that I was His beloved child and His perfect representative. The good being done was not mine; it was God’s, and God’s work can never be punished or harmed. With those healing thoughts, I was able to rise and eventually walk across the room.

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