February 17, 2003
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From the Editors
"Mama
," my four-year-old whispered as he crawled up by me on the bed in the middle of the night, "I'm healed!" He couldn't wait until morning to tell me.
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"While LITTLE RESEARCH
has been done in Australia to understand the link between spirituality and health, research in the United States shows that greater participation in religious activities is associated with better health.
On her path to becoming a Christian Science healer, the author learned an important lesson in what prayer is really about. It happened when she herself needed healing.
Nobel Prize winner and renowned cardiologist Dr. Bernard Lown says there's a big difference between curing someone and healing them—something that has to do with the ability to listen.
No pleasure is quite akin to the joy of helping other human beings secure and lengthen their hold on life.
Every form of sickness, including communicable disease, is essentially mental in nature and can be treated through prayer on that very basis.
Two women—one a lifelong student of Christian Science, the other relatively new to what it teaches—explain how they prayed to God when faced with alarming physical conditions. The first was healed of breast lumps (Persistent prayer brings healing). The second found complete freedom after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (My journey forward to complete health).
One morning about three years ago, I discovered a large lump in one breast.
I prayed with all my heart, asking God to spare me and my family from the last stages of this disease.
Spiritual healing is effective in healing the effects of accidents and injuries, as this article explains. And there's always a further benefit in learning something new about God.
You can have a spiritual checkup any time, to examine the condition of your thoughts.
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When
someone experiences even a bit of the liberation that comes through spiritual healing—the physical and mental freedom that results from being renovated from within—it's natural to want to share it with others.
My means of treating the injury was to turn to God in prayer.
After
my dad hurt his foot when he was running, he asked me to help him pray, and I went right to work.
Picking
up where my granddaughter left off, I can explain that a rainforest adventure I had a few years ago required some strenuous hiking on steep and slippery trails.
