Testimony of Healing October 16, 1943 Issue

It is with a heart singing with...

Betty Rayner

It is with a heart singing with gratitude that I record a few of the things that the application of Christian Science has done for me. The release that it has brought from a false, restricted sense of self is something unbelievably wonderful.

Before I started to study Christian Science there were many things which I thought were impossible for me to do. Well-meaning friends tried to comfort me by pointing out that persons of my character were never able to do these things, but later it became necessary for me to do many of them, and with the understanding of Christian Science they were accomplished.

The first thing to be overcome was intense shyness, which had bound me for many years and was evidenced in stooping shoulders which no amount of reprimanding could straighten. A member of my family who introduced Christian Science to me pointed out that shyness and sensitiveness were forms of selfishness. As Mrs. Eddy writes in her Message to The Mother Church for 1900 (p. 8), "In this struggle remember that sensitiveness is sometimes selfishness, and that mental idleness or apathy is always egotism and animality." This new view shook me out of a subtle sense of pride, and later enabled me to use the quality of true sensitiveness or spiritual intuition to help others by being more aware of their unspoken need.

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