Testimony of Healing January 14, 1985 Issue

As a new student of Christian Science, I had two instantaneous...

DOROTHEA O. CROOKER

As a new student of Christian Science, I had two instantaneous healings—one of the smoking habit and the other of social drinking. This statement in Miscellaneous Writings by Mrs. Eddy exactly describes my situation prior to my healings (p. 235): "Hungering and thirsting after a better life, we shall have it, and become Christian Scientists; learn God aright, and know something of the ideal man, the real man, harmonious and eternal."

I really was "hungering and thirsting after a better life." I had been married only a short time to a Christian Scientist, and although I had not been an adherent of my former religion, I was being drawn to this new way of life.

At one point I very much wanted to know more about Christian Science, so I made an appointment to talk with a Christian Science practitioner whom my husband knew. I drove out to her home one evening and had at least one cigarette on the way. We had a very fruitful talk, during which the subject of smoking came up. She pointed out that the smoking habit was not part of my real nature as God's perfect child and therefore it could have no power over me or attraction for me. I saw so clearly that this was the truth of my being, that the desire to smoke completely fell away in that moment! I had caught a beautiful glimpse of my pure spiritual selfhood as God's image, unencumbered by an enslaving habit.

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