Testimony of Healing April 9, 1979 ISSUE

One morning some time ago I woke with great pain in my...

Marijke J. Dracht

One morning some time ago I woke with great pain in my lungs and could not breathe or speak normally. At the time I had been feeling hopelessly depressed. The physical symptoms appeared to be of pleurisy, a condition for which I had received medical treatment before finding Christian Science.

I realized my need for help and called a Christian Science practitioner, who assured me that God is my Life. I was reminded that the illusions of sadness and discouragement cannot exist in the kingdom of heaven, which in the Glossary of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy is explained as "the reign of harmony in divine Science; the realm of unerring, eternal, and omnipotent Mind; the atmosphere of Spirit, where Soul is supreme" (p. 590).

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