Testimony of Healing May 15, 2006 Issue

PRAYER RULES OUT PAIN

ERIC EMMONS

A number of years ago when I was in high school, I was outside playing paddle ball during a physical education class. I took a particularly ferocious swipe at the ball, trying to hit it against the side of the gymnasium. Immediately, I felt a strong pain in my back and concluded that I had severely strained some of my back muscles.

I stopped playing and took some quiet time to pray about the situation.

I thought about something I'd learned in Christian Science—that all true activity is the activity of God and that therefore all true action is harmonious. I knew that since God is Spirit, as His reflection I was entirely spiritual. Therefore my real being wasn't material, so muscles and the physical body could not dictate to me how to feel. Because pain is unrelated to God, it is unrelated to me.

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