I am unceasingly grateful for the...

Barbara Kinsley Koehler

I am unceasingly grateful for the many benefits which our family has received through the study of Christian Science, as well as for the good which is being done all over the world by the application of this truth.

About seven years ago our three-year-old daughter fell from the back seat of the car to the street while I was driving. Those standing on the corner who saw it happen said that the car ran over her leg and that it must be broken. We enlisted the help of a practitioner and claimed the truth that man remains forever unchanged in God's kingdom, that God not only created man perfect but maintains His creation forever perfect and harmonious.

I shall always be grateful for the clearness with which the realization came to me that it was up to me to see to it that our child was not subjected to the imposition of pain and difficulty merely through meaningless fear on my part. I knew that I must resist this suggestion, so unlike God, good, as Mrs. Eddy tells us we must in these words (Science and Health, p. 393): "Rise in the strength of Spirit to resist all that is unlike good."

Very clearly I realized the purity of the child thought and knew that I had only to get rid of any erroneous mortal mind pictures in my own consciousness. I knew that our child, who is in reality an idea of God—the reflection of God— cannot suffer. We were so grateful to see the harmonious results in the disappearance of the pain. Before evening we found her jumping from the porch steps with never a thought of what had occurred, and indeed in reality no accident had happened. The healing was complete.

This same child had been healed of whooping cough when she was two months old, and we learned a wonderful lesson at that time in having faith and in overcoming fear. The result was an abiding sense of calm and peace, as well as a deeper understanding that always "in due season we shall reap, if we faint not" (Gal. 6:9).

We have had many other healings through relying entirely upon our understanding of Christian Science. Most important of all, we have had the wonderful peace which comes through knowing that, in Science, man is always in his right place in Mind and is always active.

The more clearly truth is discerned, the more clearly will one enjoy in his daily experience his rightful occupation; and he will be protected, guided, and led in each step that he takes. The peace which the understanding of God and of man's relationship to Him as idea gives to us as parents in bringing up our family is indeed "the peace of God, which passeth all understanding" (Phil. 4:7). Our hearts sing constantly with joy.

I am deeply grateful for Christian Science and for the recent privilege of class instruction.— (Mrs.) Barbara Kinsley Koehler. Canton, Ohio.

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