How happy I am to share a recent healing with you!

Amy B. Foster with contributions from Robert Allen Foster

How happy I am to share a recent healing with you! About two years ago I discovered a lump on my head. It wasn't too big and didn't show. I didn't do much about it; it didn't go away. As time went on, however, I became more and more conscious of it, as it had gotten larger. Also, I was having a persistent headache. I realized something must be done, and I was resolved to do it entirely with God's help through Christian Science.

It was obvious that the first thing to tackle was fear. I took out my Concordances to the Bible and to the works of Mrs. Eddy and did some research on the subject of overcoming fear. The many inspired ideas I found included Mrs. Eddy's statement in Science and Health (p. 66), "Trials are proofs of God's care." I had always wondered at that, thinking to myself, "Who needs trials anyway!" Evidently I did. And in pondering that statement in conjunction with another passage in the same book, I felt assured that God had given me the ability to conquer sickness. I felt confident that I had all I needed. This was an opportunity to prove what I read (ibid., p. 393): "Mind is the master of the corporeal senses, and can conquer sickness, sin, and death. Exercise this God-given authority. Take possession of your body, and govern its feeling and action."

The headache disappeared immediately, but the lump lingered. "See here," I said to myself, "are you going to settle for less than a complete healing? What more should you be doing?" My further communing with my Father-Mother God led me to a Christian Science leaflet that shows the importance of daily prayerful treatment for oneself. As I pondered its contents I realized that I was falling short in that demand to pray daily and conscientiously for myself, and I decided it was time for reform. Soon after, I had a particularly satisfying prayerful time during which I became more than ever aware of my unity with God as a spiritual idea.

I recognized that I had been trying to heal a physical condition on a mortal body and that a mortal concept of body did not represent me in the first place. I thought a lot about God's nature, and as I did, I applied His attributes to myself as idea, or reflection, of divine Mind. As His child I am not flesh, blood, bones. I am the likeness of my heavenly Father, reflecting what He is. I made an effort not to notice the physical condition but to keep alive to the facts of being for myself, as God's spiritual idea.

Three days later I was impelled to put my hand to my head. I found my hair wet. I had to look in order to clean myself and I found a small incision-like opening. Within two weeks the condition was gone and the opening fully healed.

God preserves spiritual perfection in His idea, man. We begin to see evidence of this by healing through spiritual means alone. What joy fills my heart for the lessons learned!

(Mrs.) Amy B. Foster
DeWitt, New York

I am happy to verify my wife's testimony. I was aware of her desire to bring about the healing solely through applying Christian Science. I was with her at the time the healing was evidenced and rejoiced with her in this proof of God's healing power.

Robert Allen Foster

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