Testimony of Healing December 1, 2003 Issue

Humble prayer brings freedom from pain

Originally published in El Heraldo de la Christian Science

Marta M. Char de Chaves

One Saturday, my husband and I decided to visit a friend who lived about 100 kilometers away. After spending a pleasant day, we were given the opportunity to stay the night and enjoy an extra day.

We went to bed, but not too long after I woke up suddenly with terrible pains in my stomach. My groaning alarmed my husband so much that he woke up our friend and got dressed. He was ready to take me to a hospital.

But I suddenly realized that my complaining about that pain wasn't leading me anywhere good. Then an idea came to me that helped me very much: the idea that understanding spiritual truth restores physical harmony. I prayed, thinking about this idea and trying to reason so as to see that all life is an infinite manifestation of God, who is good, and that everything that is real is in the one Mind, the divine consciousness.

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