Testimony of Healing August 29, 2005 Issue

SKIN ERUPTIONS FROM POISON IVY HEALED

MARY MONA FISHER

Gardening and all the outside yardwork that go with it are among my favorite summertime activities. Just recently, after a few hours of weeding and pruning around several newly planted pine trees, I saw a few eruptions of poison ivy on my arm. I'd seen the plant while working but didn't think too much about it until I noticed the spots developing.

I quickly dismissed the concern I felt by acknowledging that God's creation is good and doesn't include destructive, harmful elements. I'd seen this proved countless times in my life, and, as a result of reasoning this way, I was healed of a chronic, allergic reaction I'd had since childhood.

That healing came as I began to understand, through my study of Christian Science, that the problem was not a result of the environment—what was in the world around me—but rather of a faulty material view of the universe, which I'd accepted as true. The allergy vanished as I was able to replace my mistaken perception of matter as real, with the understanding that the universe and all things in it are spiritual, and therefore harmless.

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