Testimony of Healing August 15, 2005 Issue

PERSISTENT PRAYER BRINGS HEALING

FAITH DONAVIN

Sometimes I've known precisely one thought that has led to a healing through prayer, but at other times, the determination to stick "steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true," as Mary Baker Eddy wrote in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (p. 261), has brought me a myriad of divine thoughts, or angel messages. This was the case in a healing that took a lot of steadfastness.

The circulation in one of my legs had apparently become impeded. Swelling prevented me from wearing a normal shoe, and standing was painful. Since effective healing through prayer in Christian Science had been my bulwark for many years, I didn't consider any other treatment.

Previous healings I had experienced in Christian Science had brought me a clearer understanding that what appears to be an inharmonious material condition is not real, but an illusion. Mary Baker Eddy made this plain when she wrote, "The testimony of the corporeal senses cannot inform us what is real and what is delusive, but the revelations of Christian Science unlock the treasures of Truth" (ibid., p. 70). Knowing that this leg condition had no basis, history, or legitimacy in divine Truth was the standpoint from which I prayed daily to increase my understanding of my right to health and freedom as God's beloved child.

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