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Glaucoma healed through prayer
A few years ago I made an appointment with an optometrist for an eye examination, in order to get a new pair of glasses. After examining my eyes, the eye doctor told me that I had glaucoma, which, he said, was due to high blood pressure in the eyes.
He gave me a prescription for eyedrops and said I would have to use this medicine from then on because, according to him, glaucoma is incurable. He added that if I didn't follow the treatment he prescribed, I would become blind, although at that time my vision had not deteriorated. For a while I used the medication.
I was grateful, though, for the healings I had had through Christian Science since my childhood. And I wanted to trust God to heal me in this instance. So I made an appointment with a Christian Science practitioner. "I am ready to stop using the medicine for my eyes, if you agree to treat me through prayer," I told him. He agreed immediately. He mentioned some passages from the Bible and from books by Mary Baker Eddy, and asked me to study them.
Two statements in Mrs. Eddy's book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures were especially helpful. One says, "If it is true that nerves have sensation, that matter has intelligence, that the material organism causes the eyes to see and the ears to hear, then, when the body is dematerialized, these faculties must be lost, for their immortality is not in Spirit; whereas the fact is that only through dematerialization and spiritualization of thought can these faculties be conceived of as immortal" (p. 211 ).
Another statement from Science and Health that gave me full confidence in God's power to restore sight was the Biblically inspired description of eyes on page 586. It says that eyes represent "spiritual discernment,—not material but mental." To me this meant that it is not my material eyes that actually see. It is God—Spirit—that does the seeing, and I see because I mirror the Mind that is Spirit. This is true for eternity, and for everyone.
I was so grateful for these insights, which to me were a revelation. The practitioner also drew my attention to the need not to personalize one's sight. I could see that we limit the scope of our sight when we say, "my sight" or "my vision," instead of thinking of sight as a permanent, universal gift of Spirit.
About two weeks after my first visit to the practitioner, I felt certain that I was healed. Four years later I went to another optometrist who, after examining my eyes, told me that the blood pressure in my eyes was normal and that I didn't have glaucoma.
I am very grateful to the Christian Science practitioner who really opened my eyes—to the fact that sight is God-given and, therefore, cannot be lost. I'm also grateful to Mary Baker Eddy for discovering and writing about the laws of spiritual existence.
Reynold Ramseyer
La Neuveville, Switzerland
May 27, 2002 issue
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