Testimony of Healing January 26, 1987 Issue

During college I began to experience chronic fear and anxiety,...

Miles M. Harbur with contributions from Meredith T. Harbur

During college I began to experience chronic fear and anxiety, particularly upon waking in the morning. Progressively my whole outlook on life was affected. In everything I did—school, career, social interactions—this undefined fear was like a dark, threatening cloud that colored my perceptions and made life difficult and painful. I was a new student of Christian Science at this time.

For over eight years I struggled alone with the trouble. I came to feel as though I had been handcuffed, prevented from accomplishing much that I knew I was capable of at work, at home, and at church. Healing began when these words from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy came to me with new immediacy and power (pp. 323–324): "Willingness to become as a little child and to leave the old for the new, renders thought receptive of the advanced idea. Gladness to leave the false landmarks and joy to see them disappear,—this disposition helps to precipitate the ultimate harmony."

This passage forcefully pointed out to me that I needed a willingness to expose error in my thought so that it could be destroyed by the Christ, which brings healing. I realized that I had not asked for help from a Christian Science practitioner to heal this difficulty because I was embarrassed at the prospect of having to explain what it was, not to mention the many years I had endured it.

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