Testimony of Healing October 24, 2005 Issue

PRAYER WINS FREEDOM FROM A DEBILITATING ILLNESS

LUEBERDA MCCLAIN

In 1999, I accepted a position as a Christian Science visiting nurse for a Christian Science visiting nurse service in Cape Town, South Africa. I had certainly discovered the healing results of the teachings of Christian Science through some profound experiences of my own. This, along with a deep desire to help others, had inspired me to become a nurse, and I was very much looking forward to this new assignment.

During my stay in South Africa, however, I was deeply humbled when the need arose for me to reaffirm for myself my identity as a child of God, dearly loved, and safe in His care. I was experiencing a recurrence of a condition I'd first had as a teen, before I found Christian Science, though now the illness was much severer. There was excessive hemorrhaging, accompanied by bouts of weakness, among other symptoms.

I called a Christian Science practitioner to prayerfully support me. Through my own prayers, it had come to me that I needed to unload some mental baggage—false beliefs about heredity, womanhood, the body, as well as hurts that weren't completely healed, wrongs that weren't entirely forgiven. In line with Jesus' parable of the tares and the wheat (see Matt. 13:24–30), the practitioner told me to gather up all those mental "tares" and to throw them out. As I look back on this experience, I can see that it was an opportunity to "get right with my Maker,"—to joyfully give up whatever was unlike Him, and to let the child of His creating, spiritual and complete, appear more fully in me.

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