About three years ago I struggled with a recurring difficulty in...

Ellen Moore Thompson

About three years ago I struggled with a recurring difficulty in which I would suddenly feel as if I might pass out. Simultaneously, I would feel somewhat disoriented and very fearful.

On each occasion I sought and received immediate loving treatment from a Christian Science practitioner. I was always able to continue whatever activity I had been engaged in. At first the difficulty appeared rather frequently, but through my reliance on God, the challenges lessened. On none of these occasions did I ever actually lose consciousness. Affirming my oneness with God always stabilized the situation.

On a Mother's Day during this period of time my husband was out of town. I drove downtown to meet a son for dinner. In the middle of four lanes of unusually heavy traffic, I again felt I might pass out. Great fear gripped me, and I even felt that I might be on the verge of passing on. I was in urgent need of help, and there was no possibility of reaching a telephone to call for aid.

In this time of dire need, I remember that I said out loud as if speaking to God, "But, I'm Your daughter!" Immediately, I felt a complete restoration of well-being. I felt suddenly well. It was so quick, and I was so free, that I shed tears of gratitude and relief.

Immediately, I felt a complete restoration of well-being.

I feel this statement from The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany by Mrs. Eddy helps explain my immediate healing: "Wholly apart from this mortal dream, this illusion and delusion of sense, Christian Science comes to reveal man as God's image, His idea, coexistent with Him—God giving all and man having all that God gives" (p. 5). God, who is my loving Father-Mother, would not withhold anything I needed to express my perfect spiritual selfhood as His daughter. What appeared as an appeal to God was in fact my way of affirming what I already knew to be true: God is a loving, just God, who has made me perfect and maintains me in His image and likeness, wholly spiritual. My spiritual identity is eternal and can never be lost.

After picking up my son and driving to a restaurant, where we spent a good hour, I then drove to a large new convention center, where we met another son and several of his children. We spent another hour or so walking throughout the several floors of this building. Again alone, I drove the forty minutes it took to return to my home. I was fully healed, and the healing has been absolutely permanent. I have never had even a suggestion of the old difficulty.

Ellen Moore Thompson
Ballwin, Missouri

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