Testimony of Healing July 10, 2006 Issue

IN AWE OF GOD'S POWER

ELEANOR ASKEW BIGBIE

In the summer of 1990, I became aware of a small hard lump in my lower abdomen. It was not uncomfortable, but at times it would concern me. At various times, I asked different Christian Science practitioners to help me pray about it. I knew it needed to be healed, but I didn't always pay much attention to it.

Over a period of about ten years, the lump grew, and I began to experience discomfort and lack of energy, to the point that I could no longer easily lie on my stomach. Ready to dedicate myself to praying for a complete healing, I called a practitioner in 2000 and said I wanted to rely totally on Christian Science. We prayed daily together for about a year to understand my relationship with God.

During that time, I learned so much about my spiritual identity. "Man is idea," wrote Mary Baker Eddy, "the image, of Love; he is not physique. He is the compound idea of God, including all right ideas. . ." (Science and Health, p. 475). I reasoned that if I was a spiritual idea, "including all right ideas," then I could not possibly include anything material or harmful. I knew that as I became convinced of God's goodness and the fact that my identity was actually the embodiment of every good, Godlike quality, then I would lose the belief about myself as separate from Him—and as having any harmful condition.

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