Testimony of Healing November 16, 2009 Issue

LUMP IN BREAST HEALED

JENNIFER WOOD

Years ago, in the early 1980s, I left my hometown for the city of Boston, where I was enrolled in a women's business college. One morning, during a shower, I felt a large lump in my breast. I was afraid, especially since a relative had passed on after an illness involving this same symptom.

As a student of Christian Science, my immediate response was to turn to prayer for healing. I phoned a Christian Science practitioner, who lovingly addressed my fearful thoughts with strong truths about my spiritual identity, and reminded me of a verse from the Bible that promises, "The king's daughter is all glorious within" (Ps. 45:13). After our conversation, I felt so strongly that my purity was intact and nothing in my family history could taint the pure relationship between me and my true, one and only relative, my divine Parent, Father-Mother God. It was as if light quickly poured into my thinking, and I don't recall ever again having an aggressive attack of fear about this issue.

Over the next couple of weeks, the practitioner and I kept in daily contact. One of the other references she had me ponder is found in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: "When the illusion of sickness or sin tempts you, cling steadfastly to God and His idea. Allow nothing but His likeness to abide in your thought. Let neither fear nor doubt overshadow your clear sense and calm trust, that the recognition of life harmonious—as Life eternally is—can destroy any painful sense of, or belief in, that which Life is not" (Mary Baker Eddy, p. 495). "Allow nothing but His likeness to abide in your thought" meant to me that I could see God's likeness as manifested in qualities of purity, beauty, and grace. Shedding spiritual light on the situation allowed no room for fear—just pure calm and peace.

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