Article November 27, 1976 Issue

My "grateful garden" has many sturdy blooms

Lucy H. Barclay

My "grateful garden" has many sturdy blooms. I am especially grateful for healings of irregular heart action, influenza, and other illnesses. These healings have taken place over many years.

When television was first employed to warn the public about detection of malignancy, I was not alert to guard my thought. When a lump appeared on my body, I became frightened. There was no diagnosis but the pain and fear I felt for months seemed very real. When I admitted this fear to a Christian Science practitioner, she prayed daily for me and helped strengthen my understanding that I was a complete, whole, perfect spiritual idea of divine Mind, God— not a female mortal. The embodiment of right ideas was the only body I could have. She assured me nothing false could attach itself to a spiritual idea. She spoke to me of my heavenly Father's tender love, and pointed out that I could be sensitive only to good.

This clear worker directed me to Mrs. Eddy's statement in Science and Health (p. 162), "Christian Science brings to the body the sunlight of Truth, which invigorates and purifies." I began to think of God's truth as penetrating and illuminating every dark corner of my consciousness until there was nothing but light. Every time the fear of disease troubled me, I opened my thought to "the sunlight of Truth"—I mentally let the sunshine in, and clung to the rest of the statement, "Christian Science acts as an alterative, neutralizing error with Truth. It changes the secretions, expels humors, dissolves tumors, relaxes rigid muscles, restores carious bones to soundness." The discipline of turning my thought from matter to Spirit resulted in my healing, proving the truth of the final words in this paragraph, "The effect of this Science is to stir the human mind to a change of base, on which it may yield to the harmony of the divine Mind." The healing was complete and permanent.

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