Article December 11, 1995 Issue

Redeemed by the riches of Spirit

Isabella Alice Marshall

One day, soon after I had become a serious student of Christian Science, I became ill with influenza. I read the Lesson outlined in the Christian Science Quarterly in the morning, and this verse stood out to me: "Thus saith the Lord, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money" (Isa. 52:3).

At this time my routine in the evening was to bathe the children, read them a section of the Lesson and a bedtime story, after which I would put the two-and-a-half-year-old to bed and help our six-year-old son with his school homework. That evening, however, I felt too ill to bathe the children. After procrastinating for some minutes, I gave myself a shake and thought, "At least read the Lesson to them."

In the section I read was the verse already quoted. Our son asked, "Mummy, what does that verse mean?" I did not really know, so I thought about it in order to answer the child. Then I saw it! Applying it to myself, I saw that I had sold myself to a belief of influenza without gaining anything good by doing so, but that I would be redeemed by my spiritual riches—the truths I was learning in Christian Science.

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