Testimony of Healing June 30, 2008 Issue

DIAGNOSIS REVERSED

ELIZABETH BEALL

From the beginning of my marriage, I was eager to start a family. As a school-teacher, I enjoyed working with children, and it felt natural to think about wanting my own. But when I didn't get pregnant right away, I began to wonder if I'd ever have a child. So I prayed. I'd learned in Christian Science to turn to God for comfort, guidance, and healing. And prayer had proved successful for me many times.

As I prayed about having a child, my thoughts evolved from wishful thinking and willful impatience, to gratitude for the opportunity to work with children every day. Also, I realized that to properly love and educate a child, I'd need a better understanding of God, the real Father and Mother of everyone. So I joined a Christian Science branch church, became active in it, and took Christian Science Primary class instruction. In that course, I learned that God is perfect Cause, creating all humanity to reflect Him spiritually as His perfect effect.

One day at school, as I was pushing a child on a swing, I mentally heard these words: "Father, where Thine own children are, / I love to be," which are lines from a poem written by Mary Baker Eddy, set to music in the Christian Science Hymnal (No. 253). From that moment, I felt contentment in loving the children I taught, right where I was. I felt freer to relinquish the task of creation to God, the only Creator.

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