Testimony of Healing February 14, 2005 Issue

ON THE WINGS OF PRAYER

VALERIE MINARD

"If one more thing happens, I don't know what I'm going to do," I said to myself. I had just started a new job, moved to a new location, taken on a new church responsibility, and my mother had recently passed on. So much had happened lately, both good and bad, that I wasn't sure if I could manage any more change.

Well, that "one more thing" happened. One day I discovered a lump on my arm. As I recalled my mother's battle with cancer and her last stay at the hospital, I became very afraid that this condition might be cancerous, too, and might be hereditary. But right on the heels of that came another thought—that I had experienced enough spiritual healing in my own life to know, in spite of my fear, that I could trust in God, whom I think of as my Mother-Father, to help me.

Instead of seeking a medical diagnosis, I asked a Christian Science practitioner to join me in praying about this. She shared her own spiritual healing of a lump in her body, which gave me great encouragement to expect healing for myself. We prayed with ideas from the Bible and from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, which explains the spiritual healing system Jesus used.

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