Testimony of Healing January 23, 1995 Issue

Recently I was in our annual high-school musical

Karin Hendrickson with contributions from Eileen Hendrickson

Recently I was in our annual high-school musical. I played an important supporting role that required much speaking and solo singing, and the show was to run for three consecutive nights. We had our opening performance on a Thursday night, and every possible thing that could go wrong with the technical crew did. The curtain closed with feelings of accomplishment for the show, but a definite strain existed between the actors and tech crew.

Early Friday morning I woke up with a hoarse voice. Although I prayed some, the situation did not improve much. As the Friday performance began, my opening lines came out strained and raspy, and everyone became concerned. Several tech crew members fitted me with a mike so I could be heard and finish the performance. Afterward much was said by cast members and parents as to what medication I should take for my "lost" voice.

When I woke the following morning to find little improvement, I knew it was time to do more studying and praying. The thought that came to me was to look up passages referring to voice in the writings of Mary Baker Eddy. There were several helpful passages, but one stood out: "What if the old dragon should send forth a new flood to drown the Christ-idea? He can neither drown your voice with its roar, nor again sink the world into the deep waters of chaos and old night" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 570). It was suddenly clear to me that error has no voice! My voice was an expression of joy and love, and error could not keep those qualities from being shared with the audience and everyone. I felt more peace, and went about the day with excitement and anticipation of our final performance. I knew that the roar of evil was just a mew in the presence of God's love.

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