Article January 27, 2003 Issue

Thank you, Lord, for healing me

A minister finds Science and Health.

By Rodolfo Urdapilleta Written for El Heraldo de la Christian Science

I WAS VERY DEPRESSED at the time. I had a lot of problems, and my heart was very sad. I was a radio enthusiast, and one day I was scanning my shortwave radio and suddenly tuned in to the radio program El Heraldo de la Christian Science. This was for me like "the voice of him that crieth in the wilderness." It was a very different voice from any I'd heard in all the spectrum of radio programming. I started to listen and was very interested in the way passages from the Bible were mixed in with passage from Science and Health.

I began to understand many things. Things that during many years as a pastor with a very strong ministry—both here in Cancun where I live and in Mexico City—I had never understood before. God began to open my heart to something new, something different, during this time in which I felt such anguish.

Then during one program, this was read from Science and Health: "Would existence without personal friends be to you a blank? Then the time will come when you will be solitary, left without sympathy; but this seeming vacuum is already filled with divine Love. When this hour of development comes, even if you cling to a sense of personal joys, spiritual Love will force you to accept what best promotes your growth. Friends will betray and enemies will slander, until the lesson is sufficient to exalt you; for 'man's extremity is God's opportunity' " (p. 266).

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