Testimony of Healing December 6, 1993 Issue

As the Christmas season rolls around, two healings come to...

Edwin G. Leever

As the Christmas season rolls around, two healings come to mind that I'd like to share. The first one happened when I was a college student. My mother, a delightful person beloved by many, passed on two days before Christmas.

In between periods of grief and taking care of all that had to be done I kept thinking what a void there now was in our family. We spent part of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in a funeral parlor, and despite the love shown to our family, it was not easy. The holiday season had always been such a happy time for us. "Will Christmas ever be the same again?" I asked myself.

But, being a Christian Scientist, I knew the only way my grief could be healed, and my peace restored, was through prayer. So I prayed as best I could to see that Life, being God, is and ever will be eternal. I prayed to understand man better as the perfect and spiritual expression of God. And I knew that man continuously expresses only what God includes as infinite Spirit. I began to see, after much prayer, that the lovely qualities my mother expressed—kindness, thoughtfulness, consideration of others, real caring—were always with me for the very reason that they had their source in God, everyone's true Parent. No one could ever be separated from God or any part of His goodness. What I had to do, I could see, was to accept these spiritual facts of being as true, and then begin expressing more true, Godlike qualities myself.

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