Testimony of Healing March 14, 2005 Issue

NORMAL DIGESTIVE FUNCTIONS RESTORED

JOY FERNE

In the spring of 2001, I began having trouble with my digestive system and natural functions. Nothing seemed to be working properly, and the symptoms and frequent discomfort I was experiencing alarmed me. I have always found healing through the spiritual method of cure explained in Christian Science, and so it was natural for me to turn to God for healing.

After several days, however, with no apparent improvement, I felt I needed help in praying through this difficulty. The Christian Science practitioner I called immediately reassured me that no power could act on its own, independently of God, and disrupt normal functioning. This helped me see that God's opposite, evil—in this case the evil named disease—had no actual existence. It was a false power based on the belief that matter has intelligence.

The practitioner calmed my fears and set me on the right path to healing. She discussed the prayer of thinking as God's child—in other words, of seeing how God thinks of us. He knows only what He has created, which is perfect, spiritual, and harmonious in every way. He did not make disease, nor could His likeness be susceptible to it. He sees only good! A verse from the Bible, "The king's daughter is all glorious within" (Ps. 45:13), inspired me with its acknowledgment of the innate inner purity and perfection of each one of God's children.

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