I am grateful for the lessons we...

Greta J. Herzog

I am grateful for the lessons we learn when we experience healing in Christian Science, and I should like to tell about a healing I had some time ago. All of a sudden one day I became quite ill. In a few days I started to be very weak and had to lie down after doing the slightest task. As time went on I grew weaker and found myself lying down most of the time. I managed to dress myself each morning and study the weekly Bible Lesson, found in the Christian Science Quarterly. Then during the day, again lying down, I did other studying from the writings of Mary Baker Eddy or read our Christian Science literature. This went on for about three weeks until one day I became so weak I even fainted.

One afternoon, when I was going to be alone, I decided I would just lie down and study the whole afternoon and see if I could not get my thought so filled with the truths of Christian Science that healing would result. I did this, and in the late afternoon I tried to get up, but was still very weak. That night my prayer was along this line: "Dear God, please show me in some way what I am doing wrong or what I am thinking wrong, because I want to do what is right." I remember I slept well that night, but the difficulty was still present when I started to get up the next morning.

About ten o'clock that morning the thought came very plainly to me, "You had better change your thinking about this nuclear bomb testing and your fear of the world situation." Then I recalled that my previous thinking had been something like this: "These nuclear tests that different countries seem to think are so necessary are all wrong because they endanger the lives of everyone on the face of the earth, and this is not right." As I looked back I could see that I had really let the question of nuclear testing bother me, and of course there was fear accompanying my critical thoughts.

So immediately I corrected my thinking. I changed my criticism by knowing that, in truth, all men, whatever their country, reflect God, Love. To correct the fear, I also declared that since God is All, as I had proved many times, I need "not fear what man shall do unto me" (Hebr. 13:6). I reasoned things out in this way for about ten minutes and then found that I was completely free.

When my husband came home for lunch that noon, he found me doing my housework, and I said that I was healed and could get around just fine again. That afternoon two friends called, and they wanted to go out to look at the flowers; so I went out with them and walked all around the yard, something I could not have done the day before.

I must, however, relate that a couple of days afterward I had a relapse, and the same old condition bothered me at times. But I was quick to realize what was causing this. I was so grateful for my wonderful healing that I was going over the erroneous thinking that had been ruling me and making a reality of it. I then dismissed all the error from my thinking as a bad dream, knowing that in divine Mind it had never had any place at all. On page472 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy writes, "Error is unreal because untrue." I was soon free again and have remained so.

I have learned a wonderful lesson from this healing, and since then, when the unsettled world situation is brought to my attention by television, by newspapers, or in conversation, I just know that true government is vested in God, who is ever guiding and guarding the one real, spiritual creation.

I am grateful for the teachings of Christian Science and for class instruction, which has helped me to understand its truths.—(Mrs.) Greta J. Herzog, Pompano Beach, Florida.

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