In the summer of 1981 I experienced much pain from my...

In the summer of 1981 I experienced much pain from my spine to my heels. I would pray sincerely about this, and it would cease, only to return again in a couple of weeks. Then the pains came more frequently and for longer durations. This continued for several months. In my heart I would wonder if each period of relief was a permanent healing.

Then in early November we were visiting my sister and her family. During the visit I had another attack, and my sister (also a Christian Scientist) remarked that she had had the same experience a year earlier, and had received a very quick healing with the help of a Christian Science practitioner. She mentioned the condition to be sciatica. This very name really jolted me, as I recalled our mother had been confined to bed for several months under medical treatment for this disease.

My husband and I decided to return to our home, where I would ask for help from a practitioner. As we drove along the interstate highway, I was in such agony I asked my husband to stop at the next service area and phone the practitioner for me. We were still a long way from the next area. I reached for a copy of The Christian Science Journal on the seat beside me. I opened it at random, just wanting to read anything that would take my thoughts off the pain. My eyes fell upon a particular article, and I knew in the first few moments of reading what it had to say about "the touch of the tender Christ" that I had found my answer in one paragraph. I paused, suddenly overwhelmed with the awareness that the healing Christ was present. I actually felt the irresistible, all-powerful love of God surrounding me and, most important, I was aroused to a realization that I was not a mortal, physical being, but the perfect spiritual idea of God. This then was my answer—to awake from this illusion of mortality.

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We were visiting my sister in Montana
June 21, 1993
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