Testimony of Healing January 18, 1993 Issue

During a period of financial need, I had to get a job to help...

Sandra Coats

During a period of financial need, I had to get a job to help supplement the family income. Since I had not worked outside the home before, I was apprehensive. I considered this prayerfully and found the following statement in the Bible: "Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us." These words in Science and Health also provided insight into my God-given ability to find and perform this necessary work: "All that God imparts moves in accord with Him, reflecting goodness and power." Soon a job opened up that has allowed me to express kindness, helpfulness, and joy while earning extra income.

Our daughter had a recent healing that strengthened our trust in divine Love as capable of healing sickness. She had a stomachache and diarrhea. The Bible Lesson that week in the Christian Science Quarterly was entitled "God the Preserver of Man." I read in Science and Health, "When the evidence before the material senses yielded to spiritual sense, the apostle declared that nothing could alienate him from God, from the sweet sense and presence of Life and Truth." Our daughter's behavior during this time had been less than perfect; there seemed to be a lack of communication with her father and me for no apparent reason. I needed to see her true, spiritual selfhood as God's own lovable, obedient child, and I prayed to understand this identity more fully. A quick healing followed, and with it our daughter began to express more gratitude and a sweeter disposition as well.

Some years ago an apparent kidney ailment kept me from being as physically active as usual. I prayed humbly to feel God's presence and know His good purpose for me. I discovered the need to replace resentment with more grateful, kind, pure thoughts. When I did this more consistently, the physical problems disappeared and have never returned. To me, this was evidence that "simply asking that we may love God will never make us love Him; but the longing to be better and holier, expressed in daily watchfulness and in striving to assimilate more of the divine character, will mould and fashion us anew, until we awake in His likeness" (Science and Health).

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