Testimony of Healing March 22, 2004 Issue

A landmark healing prayer

Ross Shickler

For a number of years during the winter months, I used to suffer every season from severe influenza. As a Christian Scientist, I had always turned to prayer during these onslaughts. But during one particularly troublesome bout with the flu that had all but prostrated me, I still had not found relief after several days of prayer.

One night I awoke feeling nauseated, and I got up and walked into the living room. Pacing back and forth, I decided vigorously to challenge through prayer, once and for all, this chronic ailment. Through my study of Christian Science, I had learned to know and love God as my Father-Mother. I knew His love for me was constant. It precluded the possibility that I could suffer or be sick.

I vividly recollect my audible and determined prayer. It went like this: "Either I am God's perfect son, or I'm not. Either Christian Science heals, or it doesn't." Thinking deeply about the meaning of these statements, I realized that I knew without hesitation my response to both. I saw that I was God's perfect likeness, untouched by infirmity, and that this was true for everyone. I recognized that the well-authenticated record of thousands of healings published in the Christian Science magazines was a powerful validation of this fact. The understanding of our relationship to God dissolves whatever may be intruding upon our lives, restoring health, happiness, well-being. I considered with gratitude this lengthy published history of healing by spiritual means,

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