Testimony of Healing January 31, 1994 ISSUE

Over a year ago something happened to help me understand...

Mary Alice Rose

Over a year ago something happened to help me understand that the true healing of disease takes place entirely in thought. I had started studying the weekly Christian Science Bible Lessons more earnestly than in the past, and found that as a result my thought seemed clearer and less troubled by day-to-day events. I could say I was seeing proof that "the purification of sense and self is a proof of progress" (Science and Health, p. 324).

One day I noticed a small growth on my thumb. It appeared to be draining, and was not painful. I covered the thumb with a bandage and fully expected there to be a complete healing, as I had been studying and praying to make my thoughts more pure and spiritual. I pondered the statement "A spiritual idea has not a single element of error, and this truth removes properly whatever is offensive" (Science and Health, p. 463). The growth did not completely disappear, however, and the thumb was becoming discolored, swollen, and painful. I began to be fearful, and called a Christian Science practitioner to help me in prayer.

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