Quick healing of cold and back pain

Phyllis D. Smith

One afternoon, in the early days of my study of Christian Science, I sensed the onset of a head cold. Right away I left the task at hand and turned my thought toward God, Spirit. Opening Science and Health, I began reading and actively accepting into consciousness the spiritual facts to annul this suggestion of illness.

God is closer even than our own thoughts.

At the end of the chapter I was reading, two words gave me the answer that removed the symptoms immediately: "bald imposition." The whole sentence reads, "The calm, strong currents of true spirituality, the manifestations of which are health, purity, and self-immolation, must deepen human experience, until the beliefs of material existence are seen to be a bald imposition, and sin, disease, and death give everlasting place to the scientific demonstration of divine Spirit and to God's spiritual, perfect man" (p. 99).

I thought, "Why, of course. How impossible it would be to impose anything more onto a complete, perfect idea! This picture of a head cold is a blatant attempt to detract from God's work, already done, as the Bible declares. Therefore I need not consent to such an obvious diversion. Man does not need or benefit from superimposing this or any other concept of illness upon his real selfhood as God's spiritual, perfect man."

The symptoms disappeared immediately.

On another occasion a sentence from Science and Health aided in healing back pain. My husband and I were ready for a five-hour trip by automobile when I was seized with a severe pain under my left shoulder blade. As we drove I could not get comfortable any way at all. As best I could, I prayed. When we got home I read the Bible and Science and Health, and finally slept.

The next morning the pain was gone. However, later in the day it returned, only this time it was under my right shoulder blade. I recalled reading this sentence from Science and Health: "Disease has no intelligence with which to move itself about or to change itself from one form to another. If disease moves, mind, not matter, moves it; therefore be sure that you move it off" (p. 419).

That was my freedom. I moved the thought of pain as having any place or power off my concept of man, leaving as the only reality the spiritual man of God's creating. That pain never returned.

I am grateful for these physical healings, in which my thought was directly uplifted by reading Science and Health.

Other healings have occurred in my experience as a student of Christian Science, such as a severe respiratory infection, long-standing skin rash, chest and leg pain, character flaws, lost articles, and other disorders. All the healings are constant reminders of God's unfailing care for each of us. He is closer even than our own thoughts, and I rejoice anew in each healing, realizing that indeed "we are subject to the divine powers that be'" (Science and Health, p. 249).

Phyllis D. Smith
Syracuse, New York

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