Testimony of Healing February 14, 1994 Issue

It has been over twenty-five years since I submitted a testimony...

Patricia Mandt Hunter

It has been over twenty-five years since I submitted a testimony, and I would like to express gratitude again for Christian Science. A recent healing I have had has made me more conscious of what the understanding (not just the knowing) of divine Truth means. In the chapter "Prayer" in Science and Health we read: "Who would stand before a blackboard, and pray the principle of mathematics to solve the problem? The rule is already established, and it is our task to work out the solution" (p. 3). We don't just walk into a dark room and pray the principle of electricity to light up the room—we have to flip the switch! Just so, we have to do something specific to be healed; we have to affirm the spiritual truth, because it is this truth that heals.

For almost a year, I struggled with pain in the heel of my foot. I prayed about this for many months with the help of several different Christian Science practitioners, and I'll always be grateful for their steadfast assurance that my spiritual perfection cannot be reversed, destroyed, or concealed, because its source is God, and I reflect Him. One thought given me, which I affirmed constantly, was that "my stand for divine Principle" could not be painful.

I studied many citations from the Bible and Mrs. Eddy's writings, read the Christian Science periodicals, and pondered declarations of spiritual truth. Her statement from Miscellaneous Writings proved especially helpful: "Man's origin and existence being in Him, man is the ultimatum of perfection, and by no means the medium of imperfection" (p. 79).

Daily I would take a statement of truth, memorize it, and ponder it throughout the day. I never stopped my normal activities, although sometimes the heel was so painful I was forced to limp or walk on the front part of my foot.

After what seemed to be a crisis time, during which the entire foot became quite swollen, I could feel progress taking place in my spiritual understanding. I began to really understand that, as a spiritual idea rather than a material body, I expressed and reflected health and perfection, and that this truth excluded anything unnecessary, abnormal, or irregular. Right there where deformity and pain seemed to be was only the spiritual reality, perfect in form, function, and substance.

I began to have days of freedom from this time on. Through the practitioner's prayers, and through holding my thought persistently to the allness of God and to my entirely spiritual identity, the complete healing took place and has been permanent.

Patricia Mandt Hunter
Birmingham, Alabama

The Mother Church is The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.

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