Article February 27, 1989 Issue

Healing scars from childhood

Whether they're physical or emotional, it's never too late to bring healing to our scars.

Frances L. West

As a very young field hockey player I was hit just below the eye by a high pass from about ten feet away. A concerned coach had me escorted home.

No one was around when I got there. But as a student in the Christian Science Sunday School I'd learned that God is a never-failing help in any kind of trouble. I was used to turning to Him for healing of diseases and cuts and bruises of all kinds. So I went to my room and began to pray. By the time my mother came home, the pain had ceased and the swelling was almost gone. At first there was no sight in the eye, but this gradually returned. Although it was predicted that there would always be an unsightly scar from the deep cut, before long that too disappeared.

It's wonderful when injuries and their resultant scars are healed so promptly. But what about when scars—physical or mental—have remained for a long time? Can anything be done to heal them? Yes. The same prayerful turning to God can bring healing, no matter how long scars have persisted. In reality, in the safety of God's entirely spiritual universe, God's child has never lacked complete protection. God's child is spiritual and expresses the unchanging perfection of his loving Father, God. No change in circumstance, no accident or injury, can occur to alter or scar man's God-created perfection. Mrs. Eddy writes of God: "In Him we live, move, and have our being. Man's origin and existence being in Him, man is the ultimatum of perfection, and by no means the medium of imperfection." And she adds later on the same page, "The spiritual man is that perfect and unfallen likeness, coexistent and coeternal with God."^{ Miscellaneous Writings, p. 79.}

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