Testimony of Healing May 5, 1997 Issue

It took many years for me to learn a simple lesson: that any...

John D. Minard

It took many years for me to learn a simple lesson: that any problem we face, no matter how insignificant it may seem, is a demand for healing that should not be ignored. These are actually important opportunities to grow in our trust and understanding of God, and great rewards can come of healing small problems.

After graduation from college, as I began an active career, some annoying growths developed on my feet. Because they weren't painful, most of the time they were easy to ignore. Although I felt it would be nice to have this healed, I was so busy with the concerns of my work and other activities that I rarely took the time to pray about the condition.

As I look back on this, it seems the real difficulty was not the growths on my feet but a growing apathy that would slowly, subtly erode my faith in the ability of Christian Science to heal. It was a call for me to be more spiritually awake and alert. I needed to see that active, dedicated prayer was being required, even demanded, of me. I read in Science and Health: "Every day makes its demands upon us for higher proofs rather than professions of Christian power. These proofs consist solely in the destruction of sin, sickness, and death by the power of Spirit, as Jesus destroyed them. This is an element of progress, and progress is the law of God, whose law demands of us only what we can certainly fulfil" (p. 233).

Send a comment to the editors

We'd love to hear from you!

Easily submit your testimonies, articles, and poems online.

Submit

It took many years for me to learn a simple lesson: that any...

We'd love to hear from you!

Sign up for unlimited access