Testimony of Healing July 13, 1992 Issue

In The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, Mary Baker Eddy...

Patti Palmore Lecornu

In The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, Mary Baker Eddy wrote: "Beloved Christian Scientists, keep your minds so filled with Truth and Love, that sin, disease, and death cannot enter them." Several years ago I learned the importance of following this counsel.

A very inharmonious situation arose at my workplace. I worked in a small group of people; we had always been very close, almost like a family. But suddenly our boss began to treat one co-worker badly. The atmosphere in the office became very tense. Finally, this individual could take the mistreatment no longer and decided to retire early. This woman was a single parent with children still in school and had intended to continue working for a while longer. Although I had always had very loving feelings for my boss, I began to resent her so much that I once remarked I could never forgive her for what she had done to my co-worker.

Soon after this incident I became very ill. A Christian Science practitioner was praying for me, but my condition continued to deteriorate until I felt I was dying. One night I sat up in bed and prayed. I realized that loving thoughts were necessarily healing thoughts because God is Love, and omnipotent. I even declared aloud that I loved my boss, and I felt a love for this woman that brought me great warmth. I saw that she could never have taken any good from my co-worker because she had not been the source of good in the first place. God is the source of all good, including harmony, supply, joy, and health. Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, "No mortal mind has the might or right or wisdom to create or to destroy. All is under the control of the one Mind, even God." I thought, "That's right!" While people may appear to hurt one another all the time, the spiritual fact remains true that no human action can create or destroy another's spiritual joy, which comes only from God. I then felt much gratitude in knowing that my friend and her children were cared for by our loving Father and as a result could lack nothing.

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