Testimony of Healing March 11, 2002 Issue

Prayer equals progress

Peggy Crump

In 1987, when our oldest son, Steve, was three years old, pieces of his skin began to fall off various parts of his body. This left sores, which grew. Since it was winter, most of the sores were covered by his clothing, so they weren't visible—except for one spot on his face.

Because I was so concerned about my son, I called my mother—a Christian Science practitioner—to pray for us. She did pray, but still the condition got worse. My mother asked if I wanted to call someone else to pray about this. That was when I realized I needed to get beyond my fear about what was going on. Instead of just looking for someone else to pray for us, I prayed to God myself, to understand what I needed to know to help my son. The answer that came to me was to study the Second Commandment: "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them" (Ex. 20:4–5).

Steve was familiar with this commandment from going to Sunday School, so we talked about what the words meant. We began to see that the commandment was saying we didn't have to let the frightening appearance of this skin problem become "engraved" on our thoughts. This was difficult at first—especially at bath time—but we kept on refusing to believe that the sores were part of how God had made him.

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