Testimony of Healing September 22, 1997 Issue

From an early age, I had a hunger for and receptivity to divine...

George Reed

From an early age, I had a hunger for and receptivity to divine Principle and Love, and a sensitivity to others' needs. These forwarded my spiritual activity in all areas of my life and provided a solid foundation for my marriage—which became an inspiration for more spiritual progress.

At what would be considered a young age, I was asked to manage a department of engineers. I found my reliance on God to be more beneficial than any educational qualifications in this work, and the department developed a complex computer model and program for measuring the benefits of solar light and energy inside buildings that is still being used today, fifteen years later.

The following is one of many healings for which I would like to give gratitude to God. I became ill with what felt like a heart attack. The symptoms were alarming enough for me to curtail all my other activities so that I could study and pray for myself from morning until evening. I prayed to understand more clearly what health is. The Bible describes health as an attribute of God. Health means safety, salvation, wholeness, incorruptibility. I knew that man, as God's complete idea, includes health and holiness. I strove to see my own identity as spiritual man. I saw that health has nothing to do with matter or the physical body. Science and Health explains, "Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind; nor can the material senses bear reliable testimony on the subject of health" (p. 120).