Testimony of Healing December 15, 1973 Issue

It wasn't until I'd married and had a family that I truly appreciated...

Claire E. Russell

It wasn't until I'd married and had a family that I truly appreciated the foundational training in my early home and in the Christian Science Sunday School. I realized that in order to utilize its full potential I must study more earnestly and then practice it consistently. This study has extended over many years, and has resulted in some growth in overcoming human will, in being more humble and obedient to God, and in recognizing God as my only source of supply, happiness, and satisfaction.

Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health (p. 399), "The one Mind, God, contains no mortal opinions." This has been most helpful to me in various situations, particularly when our little daughter's face became paralyzed. My husband, not a Christian Scientist, was very fearful, as were friends and neighbors, and he took her to a specialist. The specialist diagnosed the condition as a permanent form of Bell's palsy. It was decided to make an appointment with another specialist.

During a week's interim a practitioner and I maintained in our prayerful work the perfection of this child as an idea of God. We saw her true nature as not subject to mortal mind opinion or fear but freely expressing her divine Father's beauty, mobility, and activity. As a result of this consistent prayerful work the second medical diagnosis was a reversal of the first. Through prayer in Science our daughter was soon completely well, manifesting her shining and happy selfhood.

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