Testimony of Healing March 8, 2004 Issue

Practical reliance on prayer

Susan Bradway

The first healing I remember having that came through prayer happened when I was about nine years old. I was on a large seesaw at school with a classmate who was much heavier than I was. All of a sudden, she jumped off while I was still up in the air. I landed with such force on one of my feet that it was painful to put any weight on it. One of the teachers drove me home and helped me into the house.

I had only recently started attending a Christian Science Sunday School, but I understood enough of what I'd been taught to want to rely on prayer for healing. My mother, who had been healed of a serious skin disease several years earlier just by reading Science and Health, began praying with me. I don't remember exactly what she said, but I know she told me that God was my Father and Mother and would never let me fall or be hurt. Any appearance to the contrary was simply not brought about by God, who could not know me as injured, and for that reason I didn't have to believe it. Basically, what she told me was that good is real and error isn't.

This line of reasoning completely freed me from fear. As I sat there on the sofa, I thought about what my mother had said, and it made sense to me. It was clear to me that if God was good, then anything not good—accident, injury, pain—was unreal, a lie. And I thought, "I've got things to do!" With that, I got up and found I could walk with perfect freedom.

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