Testimony of Healing February 12, 1949 Issue

Living quarters found; employment problem solved

Shirley Grapek Haight

I feel that I can never express enough gratitude for all the good that Christian Science has brought to me. I should like to give heartfelt thanks for the simple truths that "in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. ... So God created man in his own image... And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good" (Gen. 1: 1, 27, 31) and for the tremendous power of these truths, which Christian Science has explained to us.

Two experiences have proved to me the truth of these fundamental statements. No matter how strongly I felt that evil was real and powerful, no matter how long I forgot the loving care of our Father-Mother God, no matter how much I insisted upon trying to follow self-will and do the work at. hand by myself, God was ever at hand, ready to bestow His blessings as soon as I could recognize His glorious power.

In the first experience I had to move at a time when there seemed to be a shortage of desirable living places. On the evening before the day on which it would be most desirable to move, I turned to God and cast aside all further attempts to work things out my own way. I studied the weekly Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly carefully, completing it with a renewed sense of God's omnipresence and omnipotence, with all material suggestions of limitation rejected. Since spiritual existence is the only reality. Godlike qualities alone can be manifested in man's experience. While clinging to these thoughts, I was led to take orderly steps to prove the truth in my experience, and before the end of the following day I had not only found living quarters far more satisfactory than I had ever dreamed of, but I was settled in them.

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