Testimony of Healing April 21, 2003 Issue

A change of thought brings healing

Eva-Maria Hogrefe

When a blemish appeared on my face, I wasn't concerned at first. But when it began to grow, I began to pray for healing. Often I open at random the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy to focus my prayer, and one day I noticed a question: "What are the motives for [your] prayer?" (p. 2). I thought the answer was, "To heal that unsightly spot on my face."

But was my motive really concern about what others might think? Here I was, someone committed to healing others—a "wounded" Christian healer—who was finding her own spiritual progress, or lack of it, daily in the spotlight as a Christian Science practitioner. Nevertheless, I continued my healing prayer, and my joy in it was unabated.

One afternoon, a passage in Science and Health was especially significant to me: "Become conscious for a single moment that Life and intelligence are purely spiritual,—neither in nor of matter,—and the body will then utter no complaints" (p. 14). I was fascinated and inspired by the thought that just a moment of understanding the truth about divine intelligence, the Mind of each of us, could be that powerful.

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