Testimony of Healing September 1, 2008 Issue

SPIRITUAL INSIGHTS BRING DECISIVE HEALING

SANDRA H. SHREWSBURY

I recently experienced what was to me a wonderful spiritual adventure: two healings the very same day based on the ideas in one paragraph from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy. A testifier had related in a Christian Science periodical how the ideas in that paragraph had helped her in a physical emergency. This prompted me to reread the familiar citation, which begins, "When the illusion of sickness or sin tempts you, cling steadfastly to God and His idea" (p. 495).

What stood out to me this time was the word sin, and I thought to myself, "You do that (cling to God) when you're sick, but what about if it's sin—when you're upset, angry, annoyed, tired?" I realized that almost never (initially anyway) did I see such behavior as an illusion and cling to God and His idea. As the importance of this direction sank in, I recognized it as a demand and a solution.

I'd been feeling that there were things going on in the world that seemed contrary to God's power. I was buying into them as reality and at the same time becoming disturbed by all of it. This reaction had been invading my days and my outlook, and I realized it needed correcting.

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