Testimony of Healing October 26, 1974 Issue

One morning, very early, I awoke, and several moments later...

Patricia Schuster

One morning, very early, I awoke, and several moments later had extreme pain in my side. I was alone in my home at the time, and this made me feel helpless. After about an hour, when I felt I could stand the pain no longer, I called my Christian Science teacher who was in another city. He responded immediately, in spite of the very early hour, calming my thought, and agreed to treat me at once. In the meantime I called a church friend, who came to my home within a very short time.

For the next hour there did not seem to be any letup in the situation, and the suggestion came to me that I should have a doctor. After I voiced this thought, and was still in pain, I thought to myself, "Now I must take my stand. Am I going to listen to the suggestions that evil and suffering have power?" The words came to me quite forcefully, "With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation" (Ps. 91:16). My teacher had told me to study this psalm, and now these words came to strengthen and guide me, with the assurance of divine aid. About half an hour after this I knew that I was better, even though the discomfort seemed to linger. I was able to lie down comfortably and listen to the reading of the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly. The subject was, "God the Preserver of Man." Later on that evening I was able to go to my ballet studio and rehearse a group of my pupils.

Although most grateful for the healing itself, I am just as grateful for the lesson I learned in the process. I realized that gratitude expressed to the practitioners for the spiritual truth they impart is important. Mrs. Eddy states in Science and Health (p. 3): "Are we really grateful for the good already received? Then we shall avail ourselves of the blessings we have, and thus be fitted to receive more."

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