When my vision was tested to renew my driver's license, I saw...

Helen Marie Prahl

When my vision was tested to renew my driver's license, I saw only darkness, so I was told to visit an optometrist. When the optometrist urged me to have an immediate operation, I asked, "Do you mean I am going blind?"

On the bus going home I was shaken. I had expected him to issue better glasses for me, but instead he had said he could only recommend a daytime driver's license. I did not feel I could accept such a limitation.

Once I arrived home I took a short nap and woke still rejecting the optometrist's verdict. After dinner I read Christian Science literature for two hours. I prayed to God with all my heart as I never had before. I knew God is All-in-all, and I refused to accept any material belief in cataracts. I felt peaceful and went to bed.

The next morning I was at the testing office early. I asked God to direct me to the right person. The tester asked me if I would like to be tested again. This time I could make out the letters. She tested me several times. Then she went back to her desk, and I waited for what seemed a longtime. When she returned, she handed me a driver's license—a regular one! As I looked at it, I was filled with such joy that I could not stop smiling.

Normal vision restored and bowel problem healed through prayer.

During my high-school years several plantar warts had been removed from the soles of my feet, but during my college years they reappeared. I removed them periodically until Christian Science entered my life. About a year ago I realized that there was only one left and declared emphatically, "I am a spiritual idea and you are no part of me. You cannot hurt me, because I am spiritual!" I meant every word, and the wart never hurt again. Some time later I noticed that wart was gone, too. Soon the skin became soft and smooth.

When a bowel problem reappeared, I decided to reread Science and Health. I also held to a thought that had impressed me as I read a testimony in the Sentinel: God regulates the bowels (see Science and Health 413:7—11). The condition improved right away. Soon I was completely free and have remained so.

I had dropped out of college ten years before finding Christian Science. Since then I have returned to school, graduated, and become a schoolteacher. I am grateful for Mrs. Eddy, for my receptivity, and I am grateful to be a student of Christian Science.

Helen Marie Prahl
Chicago, Illinois

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