Testimony of Healing October 16, 2006 Issue

CONVICTION OF GOD'S GOODNESS HEALS BURN, IMMEDIATELY

EMILY JOHNSON

I was baking cookies as a thank-you for a friend. When I pulled the tray out of the hot oven, however, I inadvertently used my bare hand. Immediately I had three thoughts: This hurts; my hand is gripped around a sizzling baking sheet; something's wrong with this picture.

It took me a second to put those three observations together, before droping the tray onto the stove top. Yet on the heels of feeling pain and a slightly dimwitted guilt, I had some fresh ideas about my spiritual nature. I know these contributed to the quick healing that followed.

Recent healings I'd had through prayer in Christian Science—of depression, grief, and the need for eyeglasses—had convinced me that I was an idea inseparable from God, good. I had learned that I was not a physical body with a mind inside, but that my identity was completely spiritual. For this reason, I felt that my relief in this situation would come from the effect of knowing God as divine Mind, aligning my thinking with the essence of His spiritual nature. I think of this as represented by the way the grooves of a sliding window keep it in place.

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