Testimony of Healing January 5, 2009 Issue

CHILD'S PERMANENT HEALING

KATIE MARTIN

When our son Cody was about four years old, he began to complain of stomach cramps. My husband thought we should take him to a pediatrician, who said he had a bowel obstruction, which was not life threatening, but something Cody would have to live with for the rest of this life. These was no medication he could prescribe, but he added that Cody was lactose intolerant and should avoid dairy products, and certain other foods, including donuts and candy—two of his favorite foods!

We were relieved the condition wasn't termed life threatening, but I felt the label of incurability was unacceptable. I'd seen many healings through Christian Science in our children's lives. In my heart I knew that Cody was a child of God's creating, therefore spiritual, and that God, a loving Father-Mother, didn't make mistakes which needed to be corrected.

My husband supported my decision to have a Christian Science practitioner pray with us. The practitioner and I prayed with the concept of tolerance. We maintained that as a spiritual idea of the divine Mind, Cody lived and moved in the universe of Spirit, where nothing existed to cause him pain, harm his health, or interfere with his natural activity. Because of this, he could not be intolerant to a food or anything else—even his two younger sisters. And we also prayed to see his natural spiritual identity as a loving, patient, and tolerant child.

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