Testimony of Healing August 11, 1997 Issue

Last summer, while on vacation with my husband in the South American Andes,...

Norma Joan Lofthouse

Last summer, while on vacation with my husband in the South American Andes, I became ill with a digestive disorder. At first I thought it would quickly pass. But after five days of not being able to retain any food or liquid, I was quite weak. I tried to pray for myself, but my prayers were hampered by the fear of being far from home in a country where Christian Science was little known.

On the day before we were due to fly back to Miami, I finally telephoned a Christian Science practioner. I poured out all my fears, and he agreed to treat me. He encouraged me to pray with some of the ideas we discussed, but my thoughts were so disturbed I couldn't remember anything he said after I had hung up the phone. Several hours later I phoned him back again and poured out all the same old concerns. This time he made a simple comment that made me realize that, like Adam in the garden of Eden, I had been wandering around believing that although God was omnipotent, there could be other influences in His universe capable of usurping His power.

I remembered the story in the Old Testament where Elijah the prophet is hiding in a cave because he fears for his life. God asks him, "What doest thou here, Elijah?" (I Kings 19:9) I felt I wanted to explore this story further, and so I turned to my Bible, which fell open to the story. As I read it, I saw that Elijah had learned that God was not in the wind, earthquake, or fire, but rather, in something apart, in the "still small voice" (verse 12).

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