Testimony of Healing August 23, 1969 Issue

I had the privilege of growing up in a home where Christian Science...

Linda Young Wilson

I had the privilege of growing up in a home where Christian Science was loved and lived. However, it was not until I was far away from home and at college that I really found out how to demonstrate Christian Science myself.

A painful growth appeared on one of my small toes, which, at first, I ignored. As it became more painful and I began to limp slightly, I realized that this was not going to be healed merely by wishful thinking. I saw that here was an opportunity to demonstrate my own understanding of how Christian Science heals. I used every moment away from classes to study our textbooks, the Bible and Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, and to pray. I stopped looking at the toe and began to fill my thought with the positive acknowledgment of God's goodness and His perfect creation. I saw more clearly than ever before man's unity with God as His expression. It became clear to me that as the spiritual likeness of the one, perfect God I could experience no discord.

Light and joy flooded my thought after one evening of such study, and the following morning there was a large hole where the growth had been. Fear suggested that this hole was too deep to be filled in a normal way; but opening Science and Health at random, I read (p. 442); "An improved belief cannot retrograde." Again my thought was enlightened. I felt free of concern, and the healing was complete in two or three days.

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