Testimony of Healing September 11, 2017 Issue

Painful, swollen mouth healed

Sandra Henry

Earlier this year I was experiencing a very painful condition with my mouth and lips. Discomfort and inflammation made it difficult to eat or drink. I decided to handle this head-on through Christian Science.

I declared that God is omnipresent and that I could never be outside His loving and tender care. I knew there could be no pain in God, good, and therefore no pain in me, God’s spiritual reflection. I was encouraged by this statement by Mary Baker Eddy: “Have no fear that matter can ache, swell, and be inflamed as the result of a law of any kind, when it is self-evident that matter can have no pain nor inflammation” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 393).

Christ Jesus said that it is not what goes into our mouth that defiles, but what comes out (see Matthew 15:11). This inspired me to pay closer attention to what I was thinking or saying about other individuals or circumstances. If destructively critical thoughts suggested themselves, I refuted them and knew they had no place in my consciousness because they were not from God. I thought of these lines from the Christian Science Hymnal: “Take my lips, and let them be / Filled with messages from Thee” (Frances R. Havergal, No. 324).