Testimony of Healing September 7, 2015 Issue

Symptoms end, peace restored

John Bower

During a short drive home from town last fall, I experienced a brief but sharp pain on one side of my head. I didn’t think much about it initially since this had occurred before, usually on a “one-and-done” basis. However, this time it continued to recur every couple of minutes. When I arrived home, I decided prayer was in order, and so I began to affirm the allness of God, His goodness and ever-presence, and my inseparable relationship to God as His spiritual idea. In less than two minutes the pain ceased, and I was grateful for the relief but was left with a numbing sensation. I only occasionally gave the situation any prayerful thought the rest of the day.

The next day, however, I began experiencing considerable numbness in my head and stiffness in the muscles in my neck and shoulder, making turning my head in one direction difficult. That same evening an ugly rash appeared on my body. At that point, I was bombarded with speculative suggestions about what this condition could be. I felt the need to call for the prayers of a Christian Science practitioner, who is also a friend. He very quickly sensed my fear and began to help me see through the notion that I was somehow a vulnerable mortal dealing with a dangerous physical condition. Quickly my thought became calmer, and by the time we completed the call, I was feeling much more at ease.

The practitioner and I prayed together for the next few days, and each day I was grateful to be able to report some improvement. I was feeling better and had more confidence. The healing breakthrough came as we were talking about a metaphor concerning the sunrise. When the night is upon us, we can’t see the shapes and scope of landscapes, structures, etc., but as the light of the rising sun appears and gradually increases, the light illumines all these features as they truly are. My friend made the point that the truth we had been knowing for the past several days—concerning the allness of God, the wholeness and spirituality of every aspect of God’s perfect creation, and the fact that my true identity as a spiritual idea was indeed very much a part of that creation—was illuminating my consciousness with the facts of my real being and my perfect, unchanged health.

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