Testimony of Healing July 23, 2001 Issue

The foundation for a life of healing

David Pocklington

While at summer camp following my junior year in high school, I suddenly became ill at dinner one evening. I left the dining hall and went to my cabin.

Although I felt sick, I had been taught that I could turn to God for help. In Sunday School, I had learned the "scientific statement of being," and I began to repeat it from memory (see Science and Health, p. 468). It begins: "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all."

After saying this to myself several times, I felt no better. I was about ready to give up and simply feel sorry for myself. But I still realized that feeling sick was not something that I had to just accept. With renewed vigor, I prayed to prove that sickness could not affect my perfection from God. Alone in that cabin in the woods, I persisted and emphatically refused to believe that sickness was substantial and possessed intelligence. I even said aloud that God was good, and was all-power.

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