I never cease to be grateful for being able to live as a Christian Scientist

Carol DeWindt Fuller

I never cease to be grateful for being able to live as a Christian Scientist. I have had instantaneous healings of measles, ringworm, flu, colds, a broken bone in my foot, and ivy poisoning. The applied laws of Christian Science have resulted in better physical coordination, improved ability to take tests, and loss of extreme shyness.

A double healing resulted when I was forced to cope with a character flaw, a wrong sense of ego. When I was in college, plantar warts started growing on the sole of one of my feet. Eventually the soles of both feet were covered. Not only was I embarrassed by the appearance, but walking became painful. Because I could hide the condition with my shoes, I never really tried to heal it through prayer in Christian Science. I stumbled along for several years until a different problem led to an interesting healing.

During my second year of teaching school all nontenured teachers were abruptly relocated due to an unexpected drop in enrollment. I was assigned fifty miles from my home to a reportedly dangerous school where I would be dealing entirely with remedial work. I felt as if the foundation of my life had slipped, as if I were being unjustly punished.

I had been a Christian Scientist all my life, but somehow I felt that applying its rules to my career would rob me of my own sense of fulfillment! After several days of futile numbness, I wrestled Jacoblike with my ego-sense. I was forced to recognize myself as an idea of God, His child, totally in His care. These events turned me to trust divine Mind's direction, above my limited concept.

Although it was well into the school year, I felt the surprising direction to leave the school system. As I said good-bye, I was told of a new opening at an ideal school in a district nearby. I drove over for an interview; the job was mine that very day, complete with excellent assignments and a pay increase. The speed and harmony of this move, when I turned to divine Mind, contrasted sharply with the stalemate of my previous efforts, based on a mortal outlook. The apparent misfortune led me beyond my limited views into a situation that continues to fulfill and bless me in all ways.

Several weeks later I realized that the soles of my feet were like those of a child, soft and smooth. This complete healing had come quickly with no noticeable time of recovery. The healing, which occurred five years ago, has been permanent. Truly such moments of spiritual understanding are a foretaste of the full consciousness of man's immortality and of his eternal harmony.

(Mrs.) Carol DeWindt Fuller
Los Angeles, California

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