"O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou...

GUADALUPE NAVARRO de GUERRERO

"O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me" (Ps. 30:2). From girlhood on I felt a sense of loneliness because my parents were gone. As the years went by I accepted other erroneous concepts, such as lack, disease, and God's abandonment of me. Six medical specialists, after fighting to save my health for a number of years, finally told me that they were sorry but my body no longer responded to any treatment. They said that I was afflicted with a number of organic complications, so that when they tried to cure one, another was aggravated. Among these ailments were varices and phlebitis (from which I had suffered for twenty-three years), two slipped disks, thyroid trouble, excess of uric acid, and chronic pharyngitis. In addition, I was on the verge of losing my sight.

I had heard of Christian Science a year before, but I had not pursued it, because I wanted to be loyal to my own religion. I prayed constantly to God in my own way. But I was sure that those doctors who had studied so much really had the ability to decide about my life, so I accepted their opinions and advice unconditionally.

But when I felt most helpless, the time came to make a decision. I thought that since I was going to die soon, there was no reason to be too obedient to medical prohibitions. First, I decided to read—with the help of a magnifying glass—in order to test my mental retention, which I felt I had lost. What I had at hand was a copy of the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, which a friend had given me more than a year earlier. I began to leaf through the book unenthusiastically, and then I came across these words (p. vii): "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings." This statement made no real impression on me, as I didn't feel I understood it, but even so I insisted on reading the sentence again and then going a bit further. From the little I was able to grasp, I thought that the author might be mistaken on various points, because it was difficult for me to understand that something as marvelous as Christian Science could exist. This aroused my lively curiosity to know more, and I spent several hours absorbed in reading, without paying much attention to the symptoms of illness I still felt. From that time, I stopped all use of medicine. I just forgot about myself. Then I had a night of restful sleep.

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