Testimony of Healing June 26, 1976 Issue

About two years ago I awakened at six in the morning and found...

Minerva S. Rubin with contributions from Candice C. Van Vleck, Michael Van Vleck

About two years ago I awakened at six in the morning and found I was unable to move off the bed. I was very rigid and the thought came: "Pray as you have learned to do in Christian Science." Immediately I identified myself as a spiritual idea of God, already complete and perfect, in spite of the physical evidence. The material picture was merely a counterfeit suggestion, trying to make me acknowledge I was made of flesh, blood, bones, and so forth, and that these were subject to change and deterioration.

I counteracted this by declaring that as God's image and likeness I could not be inactive, as God would first have to be at a standstill. As I knew God to be omniactive Mind, the source of all right activity, I therefore was at the point of all right activity and was agile, resilient, and could move naturally.

In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy states (pp. 427-428): "The dream of death must be mastered by Mind here or hereafter. Thought will waken from its own material declaration, 'I am dead,' to catch this trumpetword of Truth, 'There is no death, no inaction, diseased action, overaction, nor reaction.'" I then felt the overwhelming fear had abated, and I was comforted. I knew there was no stoppage of harmonious action, no paralysis and no stroke where God is. I declared these truths firmly and diligently. Later I was able to get up, and I called for help from a Christian Science practitioner. Then I set to work with the Concordances to the Bible and to all Mrs. Eddy's writings. I looked up such words as movement, action, walking, and gratitude.