Testimony of Healing August 27, 1979 Issue

There have been many proofs of God's care and...

SUZANNE B. POPPEN

There have been many proofs of God's care and guidance, but three years ago, when pain and lumps developed in both legs, I was challenged to trust God's healing power as never before. For several months I had help from two Christian Science practitioners at different times, and prayed on my own at other times.

I knew that in reality I am God's permanently unblemished spiritual idea. Also helpful was the recognition that my body is not material but a mental concept embraced in consciousness. Hence I was actually dealing with thought rather than a material condition. On page 400 of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures Mary Baker Eddy refers to the body as "conscious thought." I could see clearly that my need was to rule suggestions of disease and pain out of consciousness whenever they attempted to gain attention. Also inspiring was this statement revealing the ultimate fact of consciousness (ibid., p. 536), "The divine understanding reigns, is all, and there is no other consciousness."

At one point, when I woke in the middle of the night in pain, it occurred to me to deny that God's man could die or be killed. I prayed diligently over this truth about the deathlessness of my being as the child of God. The pain left temporarily, and I went back to sleep.

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