Testimony of Healing December 14, 1998 Issue

Pain and stiffness healed

Susan Lynn Knapp

I have had many healings through reliance on Christian Science, and would like to relate two that I experienced recently. One day I woke to pain and stiffness in both of my hands. At first, I was surprised and then perplexed that I should be experiencing what appeared to be arthritis. Then I recalled seeing a television commercial for some kind of medicine in which this belief had been presented very vividly. I began praying immediately.

Science and Health states: "Anatomy, when conceived of spiritually, is mental self-knowledge, and consists in the dissection of thoughts to discover their quality, quantity, and origin. Are thoughts divine or human? That is the important question" (p. 462). I decided to begin immediately to watch my thinking more carefully and to allow only Godlike thoughts to enter. As I read the Lesson-Sermon, found in the Christian Science Quarterly, and then went about my day, whenever the thought of pain suggested itself, I declared, "There is no pain in Truth, and no truth in pain ..." (ibid., p. 113). I also held to my true, spiritual identity as God's image and likeness. I considered that hands express spiritual ideas, which include flexibility, coordination, and beauty.