Testimony of Healing August 18, 2008 Issue

LUMP IN BREAST HEALED

LIZ BREMNER-SMITH

Last summer while in the shower, I discovered a lump in my breast. Being a lifelong Christian Scientist, I immediately turned to God in prayer, vehemently denying the possibility of anything harmful attaching itself to me. I'd learned that as God's image and reflection, I was created spiritual, whole, and invulnerable.

But over the next few hours I found myself swinging like a pendulum between fear and hope. In my calmer moments I clung to the idea that "a spiritual idea has not a single element of error, and this truth removes properly whatever is offensive" (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 463). This assured me that whatever appeared in my body as an abnormality could not have any substance.

My boyfriend, who has since become my husband, gently supported me in prayer, and his calm, unfazed attitude had a profound effect on my thought. It helped me take a firm stand on a spiritual foundation of prayer.

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