Testimony of Healing April 5, 1993 Issue

Although I was raised in a home where Christian Science...

Barbara Dygert Vars

Although I was raised in a home where Christian Science was practiced, I really did not try to understand its teachings until I was a young adult.

After marriage, when I became pregnant, I began to question seriously the true meaning of life. I asked a Christian Science practitioner to pray with me during the pregnancy and to help me gain a better understanding of my spiritual relationship to God. We had several meetings, and she very lovingly guided me through parts of the chapter entitled "Genesis" in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health. I held fast especially to this passage on page 511: "The divine Mind supports the sublimity, magnitude, and infinitude of spiritual creation." The thought, or idea, of God's support was most helpful to me when I related it to my current life; I was teaching, taking care of household duties, and traveling every weekend. I recall thinking a lot about the words sublimity, joy, magnitude, and greatness, realizing just how great God's love for His creation must be, and how I could surely count on it. This relieved me of a feeling of pressure and burden.

As the time grew closer for the birth of the baby, I prayed with the ideas expressed on page 506, from that same chapter: "Spirit, God, gathers unformed thoughts into their proper channels, and unfolds these thoughts, even as He opens the petals of a holy purpose in order that the purpose may appear." I began to realize that God was controlling the entire action of my being, as well as the baby's, and that I could totally trust Him to care for both of us.

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