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‘This healing was my Christmas gift’
I have experienced joy, peace, and physical healings from the study of the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Last year I was in the kitchen helping with the Christmas dinner. As I opened the oven door to retrieve a dish, my hand came too close to the oven coils, and I burned my hand.
My immediate response was to look away from my hand and declare silently that I was OK and nothing had happened to harm me. Why? I did this because the spiritual truths that I have learned in my study of Christian Science and the Bible supported a dismissal of inharmony and a declaration of God’s, divine Love’s, power. As the image and likeness of God, I could reject any sense of pain. As a spiritual idea, my substance was not material, which meant that I did not have to accept the pain as true about me.
I continued to hold these ideas in thought, and, after a few minutes, the pain subsided. After a few more minutes, all discomfort ended. I looked at my hand, and all traces of the burn had disappeared. This healing was my Christmas gift. “Unwrapping” it, I felt the joy of being in the presence of the Christ, joy that had seemed to elude me for a while, which is the main reason this healing was especially significant to me.
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