Testimony of Healing April 24, 2000 Issue

Spiritual seeker finds answers and healing

Ginger Gray with contributions from Doyle Gray, Jr.

About five years ago, a friend handed me a copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Although I had been a spiritual seeker from young adulthood and had read widely in many areas, I found that Science and Health rang true and was a refreshing change from other beliefs that didn't make sense to me. About this time, I had a personal experience that challenged my faith. I chose to turn from my spiritual study to face life on a more material, and what I then considered a practical, basis. What fol lowed was several years of darkness, confusion, and struggle.

A couple of years ago, I got back in touch with my friend. I was talking to him about my having headaches a lot, and suddenly he started to tell me about how God created us like Himself—spiritual, not material. He directed me to the passage in Science and Health where Mrs. Eddy states: "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all" (p. 468). My friend insisted that there could not be, and was not, sensation in matter, and that what seemed to be sensation in the body originated in thought. The next time I had a headache, I contemplated this quotation, and repeated to myself over and over with firm conviction that "there is no sensation in matter" (see Science and Health, p. 237). Shortly, the pain subsided. I was amazed, and grateful for this relief. I realized I had applied what I had learned from Christian Science up to that point. I had proved the Principle of Christian Science to myself in some small degree.