Testimony of Healing July 6, 1992 Issue

Three days before the Northwest Regional Youth Meeting...

Cathy Skeen

Three days before the Northwest Regional Youth Meeting in October 1991, I had several severe physical problems. I was suffering from a cold unlike any I'd ever had before. Also, my leg and foot were so swollen that I couldn't wear any shoe comfortably, let alone stand for more than a few minutes at a time.

I had a tremendous amount of responsibility, first as a member of the steering committee running the three-day meeting, and second as a participant in the meeting. I was very afraid that I would be unable to complete the critical work left to do before the meeting, or even to attend the meeting itself. Most important, I feared that no one else could perform all the details connected with the meeting that I was to handle.

The theme of our meeting was "Time for Thinkers and Doers"; I could see my "time" was here and now, and that my "thinking and doing" must be prayer. I immediately countered the aggressive fear with a quotation from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: "The real jurisdiction of the world is in Mind, controlling every effect and recognizing all causation as vested in divine Mind." Since the first day I had been asked to be a steering committee member, this passage had been my daily guide. I had kept my focus on the fact that this meeting was God's idea and thus already complete. Every effort, decision, or contribution to a discussion I made was with an acknowledgment that I could reflect only what was needed at any given moment because I am God's loved, intelligent, and receptive child. Since God is all power, nothing could prevent any necessary decision or action from happening. No human personality could disturb or displace God's plan for the Youth Meeting.

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