Testimony of Healing May 16, 2005 Issue

FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT RESTORED

JOANN SMEDLEY

When our three children were young, I was leading a very busy life as a mother, director of a large nursery school, and clerk of our church. I was feeling stress and pressure. During this time, my right arm and shoulder began to be painful, and gradually movement became restricted.

I prayed about the difficulty intermittently, and not too fervently, thinking it would go away as things so often did when I acknowledged the truth that as God's spiritual idea, I was innately perfect. But this time things got worse, until I was in constant pain, which interfered with my sleep and made it difficult to do little things such as comb my hair or sign my name well and easily.

One day as I was driving to work, the thought struck that soon I might not be able to drive my car, and this was frightening because all of my activities would be curtailed. At that point, I called a Christian Science practitioner for treatment through prayer.

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