Testimony of Healing February 6, 1954 Issue

All my life I have been a grateful...

Mary Margaret Kessler with contributions from Earl Wilkerson, Hattie Wilkerson

All my life I have been a grateful recipient of the loving-kindness of God, of whom our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, says (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 151), "God is our Father and our Mother, our Minister and the great Physician."

Although I have always been eager to know more of the truth, for a long time I usually asked for help in working out my problems. It was a housemother in college who awakened me from this retarding practice. She made me realize that the truth I had loved but not applied for myself would be mine only as I used it and so made it my own. I began to see that man is an individual idea of God, complete in his expression of Mind, Truth, and Love as God's reflection, and so is able to use the truth he reflects. This meant to me that I need not accept the limiting beliefs which would say that I did not know enough of Science to make it work or that I was not capable of effectively using what I did know. From this point on, my growth in Science has unfolded rapidly.

Christian Science has truly been a preventive religion for me, for there has been little sickness or disease. Impetigo, itch, and an abnormal condition of the eye were healed through the help of Christian Science practitioners when I was a child. Since then the problems which have, presented themselves have been like those described by Paul as a "light affliction, which is but for a moment" and which "worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory" (II Cor. 4:17). Through the study of Christian Science I am learning that each human experience can have a spiritual significance for us as we see it as an opportunity to demonstrate the power of Truth over error and to know more of God's allness and of man's inseparable unity with Him.

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