Testimony of Healing February 13, 2006 Issue

A HEALING LINE OF REASONING

PAM DAVIDSON

One evening at bedtime I began experiencing severe chest pains. After a few moments, I remembered reading a testimony in an issue of this magazine in which the testifier was in another country dealing with similar symptoms. He had prayed with the definition of substance found on page 468 of Science and Health, and a quick healing had occurred. I decided to also prayerfully consider this spiritual concept of substance. I turned out the lights, found the most comfortable position in bed, and began to recall the first part of this definition. It states that "substance ... is eternal and incapable of discord and decay" and that "Truth, Life, and Love are substance ..."

I reasoned that my true substance wasn't matter—I was not made up of muscles, nerves, bones—but was the image and likeness of God, as the Bible states in the first chapter of Genesis. I saw that as His image, I was made out of the same substance as He was—and that I reflected Truth, Life, and Love, which Christian Science teaches are synonyms for God. As my thought progressed along these lines, I was beginning to realize that pain could be no part of me, if my substance was "incapable of discord." Furthermore, God, the only Creator, never made anything that would disrupt the harmony of His creation, so the discord, in itself, had no power or reality.

When pain continued to shout for my attention, however, I resolved to expand on the spiritual sense of substance by thinking through some of the qualities of Truth, Life, and Love. I affirmed that these qualities were included in my own spiritual makeup, or substance, and that because they originated in God, they were forever harmonious.

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