Testimony of Healing May 17, 1999 Issue

Spiritual innocence heals illness and hip trouble

David Barker

When I was a lad, I fell on my thigh. Although it was painful at the time, I did not give much thought to it. However, over the succeeding years, I found that there would be a pain in my hip area that would niggle at me. Although I greatly valued what I had learned in Sunday School, I did little through the practice of Christian Science to correct this condition, as it seemed fairly minimal.

However, a serious threat to my health arose early in my teaching career, and I was in bed for a week with swollen neck glands and fever. I spent this time in prayer, striving to see my true, spiritual selfhood as God's idea, free from suffering. It suddenly came so clearly to me that I was not guilty! What a relief this was. I realised that I had been accepting the commonly held belief that man was mortal and vulnerable, and thus a sinner, outside of God's loving care. Science and Health points out: "Man is incapable of sin, sickness, and death. The real man cannot depart from holiness, nor can God, by whom man is evolved, engender the capacity or freedom to sin" (p. 475). I really felt my complete innocence as the child of my Father-Mother God. Within two days I was back at school, fully recovered.

Encouraged by these experiences and a number of other quick healings, including colds and a strained back, I was alerted to take prayerful action when the hip condition reappeared at irregular intervals and threatened to create problems with walking. I began to challenge the situation instead of accepting it. Each time I refuted the belief that matter could dictate to me and claimed my freedom as an expression of God's harmonious creation, the condition would rapidly disappear.

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