Article August 7, 1995 Issue

Disease unreal—preposterous?

Sharon Slaton Howell

The assurance that "disease is unreal" might seem preposterous. But to someone who has experienced physical healing by praying from the basis of the unreality of disease, this concept is comforting, healing.

It is so to me, because of the solid help I've had over the years through turning to God for health. One experience stands out clearly. For months I had been bothered with a large, painful wart on one arm. I had been praying, but the growth remained. And I wasn't the only one aware of the condition; my employer kindly asked me one day why I didn't do something about the wart. He meant, why didn't I have it surgically removed. I assured him that I was doing something about it. I was praying from the basis of the truths I was learning in Christian Science, truths that had brought me freedom many times before. Besides, I said to him, I felt a commitment to Christ Jesus' healing method, and I wanted to rely on God's power to deal with this permanently.

Then, one evening when I was out in the backyard, I had a powerful glimpse of divine reality. I had been thinking deeply that day about the first chapter of Genesis in the Bible, and about God's, divine Spirit's, work being finished and satisfying to Him. I happened to look up at an unusually beautiful display of stars when it dawned on me with great force, "Why, God never made this condition at all!" I had been afraid that perhaps the growth was going to be a permanent addition to my arm, but right then I knew beyond a doubt that my loving Father had never caused disfigurement for His child, His spiritual offspring. "Disfigurement is not part of me; it has never been part of me, not for one moment!"

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