Testimony of Healing October 31, 2005 Issue

HUMILITY HEALS POISON OAK AND RELATIONSHIP RIFT

MELISSA HAYDEN

Some years ago, I decided to eradicate some poison oak from a remote corner of my property. I took the precautions of wearing long sleeves and gloves, and I washed thoroughly when the work was done. However, the next morning while in the shower, I discovered several blisters on my arms. With all my preventive action, I still somehow had made contact with the poison oak. I was devastated. Immediately, I called a Christian Science practitioner to pray with me.

Not only was the poison oak bothering me, but during this same time I was having challenging relations with an acquaintance. I was upset by his response to what I had felt was a reasonable request. I was sure I would not have responded the same way he had under similar circumstances, and I felt he was being unkind. My prayers were a swirl of declaring God's allness while at the same time anxiously begging to be saved from the physical discomfort.

The practitioner listened patiently to my tale and assured me that harmony is God's law, referring to this statement by Mary Baker Eddy: "The relations of God and man, divine Principle and idea, are indestructible in Science; and Science knows no lapse from nor return to harmony, but holds the divine order or spiritual law, in which God and all that He creates are perfect and eternal, to have remained unchanged in its eternal history" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, pp. 470-471).

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