Testimony of Healing November 23, 2015 Issue

Resentment gone, sore throat healed

Jutta Hudson

This is adapted from a testimony originally posted during The Mother Church’s online Wednesday testimony meeting.

A number of years ago, when I was staying with my father, who lived abroad, I started experiencing discomfort when swallowing any type of nourishment. At first I thought it would get better on its own, but to my dismay it got worse. Upon my return home, I found swallowing anything extremely painful.

One morning I decided to stay in bed and wondered if I should call another church member to do my Reading Room duty for me. Then a line from a hymn by Lina Sandell Berg came to my thought: “And during the battle the victory claim,— / Their trust in Thy truth is their daring” (Christian Science Hymnal, No. 204,© CSBD). I knew that submission to false suggestions would never free me, and I decided to go to the Reading Room.

When I got there, I asked my fellow librarian if I could sit in the study room while she talked to the public. I opened my thought to the truth by reading, studying, and praying. The Bible informs us, “Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth” (Matthew 15:11). I became aware that I was feeling resentful about a certain situation I had encountered while abroad and found it “hard to swallow.” I replaced that resentment with love toward the people involved and knew that they too were governed by God, who is infinite Mind. I stopped outlining what should happen and trusted that because God was always governing, His law would correct that situation better than I ever could.

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