Testimony of Healing April 8, 1996 Issue

In today's world, with so many questions about what is best for...

LaMay Boeker Kent

In today's world, with so many questions about what is best for children, I have seen in raising our three active children that prayer to God is a wonderfully safe and certain mode of care for them. From their infant years through college, God has been our constant and effective help.

A beautiful aspect of prayer is that it not only heals the physical condition but it harmonizes and corrects the entire situation. I remember several healings our children had, and in each situation it was obvious that the need was for adjustment in thought.

One healing I'd like to tell about took place one evening when our youngest daughter was about five and woke with a very high fever. I sat up with her much of the night, praying, singing hymns, and trying with all my heart to hear God speak. I knew that it was never God's will for a child to be ill, so I felt that I could refuse to give any dominion or power to this disease. As I asked God what I needed to understand, this thought from Science and Health came to me: "Destroy fear, and you end fever" (p. 376). It wasn't hard for me to see my daughter as innocent and fearless. But I realized that I, too, needed to accept my own God-given fearlessness. Mrs. Eddy points out, "If the case is that of a young child or an infant, it needs to be met mainly through the parent's thought, silently or audibly on the aforesaid basis of Christian Science" (Science and Health, p. 412).