Testimony of Healing February 21, 2005 Issue

FEAR DESTROYED, PAIN ERADICATED

HEATHER SAFSTROM

A year ago, my husband, Nick, and I were traveling our motor home throughout the outback of Australia. While we were visiting Albany, in Western Australia, I began experiencing sharp, intermittent pains in my stomach. At first I didn't take too much notice. I thought the pain would just go away. But after several days, I was uncomfortable much of the time and becoming afraid about what I might be suffering from. I decided I needed to start praying for myself. Having been healed many times through prayer in Christian Science, I was confident that this could be healed, too.

At one point as I was thinking about this condition, I remembered a discussion I'd had a few weeks earlier. A close friend had told me about stomach ulcers that had troubled her. Our conversation had made an impression on me. Her description of the discomfort she'd been having disturbed me, to the extent that I had been afraid about my own health and well-being. Given the mental nature of disease, I began to view the pain I was now experiencing as a wake-up call. I felt it was a sign that I had allowed myself to be influenced by a frightening description of that disease.

My first step in praying for myself was to deal with the fear. I opened Science and Health (a book I've relied on for my healthcare needs all my life), and these words caught my attention: "Fear never stopped being and its action. The blood, heart, lungs, brain, etc., have nothing to do with Life, God. Every function of the real man is governed by the divine Mind. The human mind has no power to kill or to cure, and it has no control over God's man. The divine Mind that made man maintains His own image and likeness" (p. 151).

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