Testimony of Healing January 1, 1990 ISSUE

My gratitude for Christian Science comes from my lifelong...

Eric G. Horner

My gratitude for Christian Science comes from my lifelong application of its healing truths to all kinds of needs.

About a year ago I was in the kitchen preparing a meal for some dinner guests when a large pot of boiling water containing potatoes slipped from my grip and poured over my hand. The pain seemed overwhelming. Even in those first few moments, however, I felt a calm, spiritual poise. It enabled me to begin right then and there to acknowledge my inseparability from God, the only creator.

I telephoned a Christian Science practitioner for help in praying about the situation. Together we prayed with the description of man given in the chapter "Recapitulation" in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. This description states in part: "Man is spiritual and perfect. ... Man is idea, the image, of Love; he is not physique." We saw clearly that man's identity is not truly a material body but a spiritual idea.

What immediately followed, I feel, was crucial in the healing process. We reinforced firmly in our prayers this truth: "Accidents are unknown to God, or immortal Mind. ..."

This phrase is the beginning of a sentence from Science and Health. I found that I was quite familiar with these first eight words of the statement; but it was the remainder of the sentence that clearly stated the truth about this particular incident: "and we must leave the mortal basis of belief and unite with the one Mind, in order to change the notion of chance to the proper sense of God's unerring direction and thus bring out harmony." In my own thinking I annulled the thought that by chance this was bound to happen sooner or later. At that point I indeed felt God's unerring direction. By the end of our conversation I was able to go on with my dinner plans with less discomfort.

As I prepared for bed that evening, I reaffirmed my true nature as a spiritual idea. After a very restful night I woke the following morning and saw that I'd had a beautiful healing. The skin that had been severely blistered the night before had dropped off, and the hand was just slightly pink. Within one day the hand took on its normal color and function. In fact, I was able to serve as substitute organist at my branch church that following Wednesday evening and play the instrument with both hands.

For this one example of healing, and for the many benefits and healings that I have experienced through Christian Science, I am indeed grateful. I thank God for His infinite goodness and eternal law of harmony.

Eric G. Horner
Orlando, Florida

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