Testimony of Healing December 8, 1997 Issue

My wife and I were planning a much-awaited trip in 1995 with...

Percy M. Lowe, Jr.

My wife and I were planning a much-awaited trip in 1995 with our truck and fifth-wheel trailer. We were to be gone six or seven months, leaving around the first of April. In January a small growth began to develop just inside my upper lip. One day it started to bleed intensely, and it frightened me. I saw that I needed to handle the fear before I could think clearly. I called for treatment from a Christian Science practitioner.

The growth persisted and became larger, and other symptoms suggested that the problem was a type of cancer. (I did not have it diagnosed, but my training in zoology kept suggesting that this was the problem.) I continued to receive treatment from the practitioner to help me overcome the fear that the condition was incurable, that I would not be able to take this trip, and that others would see my problem and question me about it. These fears I knew needed to be eliminated. In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures Mary Baker Eddy writes, "If you succeed in wholly removing the fear, your patient is healed" (pp. 411–412).

After about two months the fear was almost completely overcome. I continued to pray for myself without the practitioner's assistance. At one point I realized that I was outlining how the healing should take place. When I realized that I was perfect right then and had always been perfect, the growth began to recede. By April it was almost completely gone. We left for our trip, rejoicing. I don't know when it was completely gone, but it is gone now and has been gone for some time.

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