Article January 1, 2000 ISSUE

"All the symptoms disappeared"

Diana-Nadine Brammann

During a routine medical examination when I was 15 or 16, the doctors discovered something as big as a fist on my lung. Further examinations showed that it was cancer.

When they told my mother, she said hopelessly, “Only God can help.”

“Yes, you're right,” someone else agreed.

We believed in God but didn't know much about Him. My mother had heard of Christian Science from one of her parents. I agreed to visit a practitioner, mostly out of desperation — I really didn't know what else to do.

Up until this time I had very little self-confidence. I always felt I attracted problems. It was difficult to make friends. During my visit with the practitioner, we didn't talk at all about my illness. Instead, she talked about how God really saw me — how much He loved me and how perfect He'd made me. These thoughts were very new to me. Afterward, I felt much stronger.

From then on, the whole family went to church every Sunday. Bit by bit, I learned more about God. Very soon, I started getting better.

But we felt pressured to have me undergo an operation. Well, I had the operation. The practitioner told me I should view all the medical procedures as if they were a film in progress that didn't touch my actual self. I read things from the chapter in Science and Health called “Creation” over and over again. I read this especially: “Look away from the body into Truth and Love, the Principle of all happiness, harmony, and immortality” (p. 261). And I tried hard to “look away from the body.”

In the evening, when I felt really afraid, I watched for what I was thinking and only paid attention to what God would say. Then I felt unbelievably safe. I knew that God loved me totally. “Looking into Truth and Love” means not seeing myself as a physical person but feeling loved by the Love that is God. And it means that I really live in Love and He surrounds me at all times. He guides me. To think that I'm created perfect by God at every second always has a calming effect on me.

The results were a lot better than the doctors had anticipated. But they told me, “You can forget going to school for the next year, and there will be no sports for you.” I kept going to school anyway. Almost no one knew I'd been sick. OK, I couldn't do much in the way of sports. That was sometimes hard.

The doctors were insistent that certain procedures had to be done. I had little opportunity to discuss things. They did what they thought was right. We knew that they only wanted to help, but we felt that really only God could help me. Then all the symptoms disappeared. They said it was medically almost unbelievable how quickly my body had recuperated.

This whole time, I had begun to change a lot. I became much calmer. I also began to think much more deeply. Every day I looked for something I could be happy about. It was like a thick, hard knot loosened itself — not just with my illness but also with so many things around me. My grades got better, and my family relationships got better. It was really like coming home, like understanding who I was.

When I think about it and look back on it all, I really have more positive memories than negative ones. I only see what wonderful changes it brought — for me, my thinking, my family. It was a major change.

Diana-Nadine Brammann
Hamburg, Germany

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