Testimony of Healing December 26, 1931 Issue

I am deeply grateful for Christian Science and for what...

Lydia Griffith Best

I am deeply grateful for Christian Science and for what it is doing for mankind. I should like to tell of a healing of heart trouble. Having been interested in Christian Science for a long time, I did not have a doctor. I knew that physical ills are the outcome of wrong thinking, and that the remedy was to improve my thinking. I had several disagreeable symptoms, and for over two years could not sleep on my left side. During this time I was struggling with a great sense of mental depression. In searching consciousness, I found I was criticizing and judging in a most shocking way. I realized that this was making my heart heavy and painful. I began to make a more consistent effort to express more of love in thought and deed, and to cultivate a habit of gratitude by being grateful not only for big blessings but for all the little kindnesses shown me. In a Christian Science Sentinel someone stated that self-pity was a most devastating vice and spoiled more lives than all the so-called diseases on earth; so I began to weed out self-pity, replacing it with gratitude.

I asked a practitioner for help. Searching the Scriptures and Mrs. Eddy's writings for a better understanding of God, I forgot my body entirely. The heart trouble disappeared, I know not when; but suddenly one day I realized that I had been sleeping comfortably on my left side for some time, and that every disagreeable symptom was gone, and I was healed! I thanked God with all my heart! For this healing and for the healing of depression I am deeply grateful, but far more so that I have learned something of gratitude.

I am also grateful for all the activities of the Christian Science movement, and for the great privilege of membership in The Mother Church.

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