Testimony of Healing November 12, 1979 Issue

Recently I learned how important it is to choose...

VIRGINIA FARISH DREDGE

Recently I learned how important it is to choose our thoughts carefully instead of allowing them to choose us. The Bible tells us (Prov. 23:7), "As [a man] thinketh in his heart, so is he." Some of the suggestions that pop up are easily detected as foreign to our natural and good inclinations. We push these suggestions right out of consciousness. But what about those that creep in more subtly?

Several years ago I suddenly became very ill. I do not know the generic name of the disease, for it was not diagnosed, but it affected my arms, hands, legs, and feet with stiffness and pain. At one point it spread to my neck and head.

I had been a Christian Scientist most of my life, and I was approaching seventy at this time. When a need arose I had always been healed through my own prayer or with the help of a Christian Science practitioner—usually very quickly. So, in this case, too, I turned at once to God for healing. I was surprised when it did not come. And at three different times in the next few years I called on a practitioner. Each time I was helped and encouraged but not healed.

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