For many years, I suffered with migraine headaches that would incapacitate me for days. It seemed that nothing could help. After a well-recognized clinic found a tumor that some doctors thought to be inoperable, I began to study Christian Science. I was healed of the tumor, of other physical problems, and of character flaws, but the migraines did not seem to yield. Instead of the injections previously prescribed, I would ask for Christian Science treatment from a practitioner. The suffering would subside for a while, but the migraines would recur.

This went on for several years until I finally took a stand based on my growing understanding of spiritual reality. I was learning that innocence and freedom from all sickness are divine rights that belong to everyone because sickness has no law of God to support it. I realized that my suffering rested on the false premise that I am a material being with a material body subject to material laws. Instead, I knew that God's creation is spiritual and that God's law of good never sent sickness to any of His children, including me. God's law is meant to bring joy, not suffering.

The Psalmist sang, "O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day" (Ps. 119:97). Throughout the Scriptures similar expressions indicate the devotion the writers felt toward obeying the laws of God and proclaiming the joy, comfort, and liberation that come through this obedience. Searching for a higher understanding of divine law, I learned that God's law is not grievous, stern, or punitive, but the loving way wherein we may find lasting health, peace, and harmony.

I placed myself solely under the jurisdiction of divine law, and I have been free of migraines for many years. It took much dedicated effort to do this focused praying, but look at the results! God's law is always operating, and it annihilates everything that is unlike God, unlike good.

Science and Health advises: "Meet the incipient stages of disease with as powerful mental opposition as a legislator would employ to defeat the passage of an inhuman law. Rise in the conscious strength of the spirit of Truth to overthrow the plea of mortal mind, alias matter, arrayed against the supremacy of Spirit.Blot out the images of mortal thought and its beliefs in sickness and sin. Then, when thou art delivered to the judgment of Truth, Christ, the judge will say, 'Thou art whole!'" (pp. 390–391).

I found this to be the right precedent to follow. I discovered my heritage of freedom by claiming my spirituality—my true and only self—and you can, too! Life, God, with its unchanging divine law, is ever adequate to meet all the needs of humanity, for it changes chaos into harmony of mind and body.

Christ Jesus was the world's ablest student and practitioner of divine law. Jesus proved for all time that man-made health laws can be reversed. Sickness has no divine law to support it. God's unalterable law upholds health as the normal condition of man.

Health is lawful; disease is lawless. Since this is true, you do not need to feel that there is no recourse if faced with a debilitating illness. Sickness is not in accord with the will of God. You can prove for yourself your God-given freedom from the injustice of disease. Health is not a variable. Health is as enduring as God's law and is our divine right to express throughout our experience. We can protest disease on the basis of our God-established innocence and our legitimate immunity from all evil.

Science and Health offers these instructions: "Let us banish sickness as an outlaw, and abide by the rule of perpetual harmony,—God's law. It is man's moral right to annul an unjust sentence, a sentence never inflicted by divine authority" (p. 381). So we can challenge any unhealthy finding and overturn the verdict, the "unjust sentence."

Jesus did not use material methods in his healing work, nor was he deceived by the appearance of sickness, deformity, or even death. He declared the perfect law of Principle, or God, that he knew was ever available for mankind to embrace: "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect" (Matt. 5:48). This true view of man as wholly spiritual and forever perfect brought about the necessary change in thought and healed those who were crippled, deaf, blind, mute, epileptic, insane. Actually Jesus was revealing the truth of man as made in the spiritual likeness of God, forever untouched by ignorant human theories and opinions.

We, too, can respond to the eternal laws of God, good, with the intelligence and ability bestowed upon us by our creator, divine Love. Obedience to God's law brings us into harmony with Love's purpose for us. It is the essence of scientific manhood and womanhood. Each day our prayers can acknowledge that we are willing to follow God's will, lovingly and lawfully, because we are in fact His offspring. As we humbly pray for this perfect law, mandated by God, to appear as the guiding force in our consciousness, we will find that we are indeed wholly spiritual and spiritually whole.