Testimony of Healing August 25, 2008 Issue

BREATHING DIFFICULTY HEALED THROUGH PRAYER

BARBARA THIEL JOHNSON

In experiencing the following healing, I became more grateful than ever for the magazines published by The Christian Science Publishing Society, both weekly and monthly, and the spiritual encouragement and healing ideas in their pages.

One morning, I woke up around 3:00 hardly able to breathe. I sat on the side of the bed, mentally declaring "the scientific statement of being" from Science and Health, which begins, "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter" (p. 468). As I continued to gasp for breath, I repeated declarations such as these: "All is Spirit. I am spiritual. In metaphysics, there is no struggling physical sense. I am not physique. My being is above physics (above the grasp of mortal concepts)." Still there was no relief. I felt like Job in the Bible, trying one thing and then another. He couldn't find comfort either. But now, what should I do?

As I walked into the kitchen, I saw an issue of The Christian Science Journal (March 2006) on the table. FEAR NOT was on the cover in large letters. Yes, I had started to become afraid. When would it stop? Beneath FEAR NOT were the words, for I am with thee. But God felt so far away.

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