Testimony of Healing December 21, 2009 Issue

GRATEFUL FOR TWO HEALINGS

LEON GLEAVES

Time and again I've seen that when any discord arises in my life, it's a call to spiritualize my thoughts. I've also found that each resulting healing is unique—it's never a matter of recycling insights gained in the past, but of taking hold of a fresh opportunity to increase my understanding of God as Truth.

Some years ago on a Sunday afternoon, I became very ill. I couldn't keep any food down, and my whole body was painfully uncomfortable. Science and Health teaches the mental nature of all things, and that false beliefs are the source of physical discord. For example, we read on page 425, "Correct material belief by spiritual understanding, and Spirit will form you anew." So I began to pray to lift my thoughts to the spiritual view of myself—the true view—and to see that sickness was a mistaken concept that had no place in God. His goodness is infinite.

I stayed home from work for the next two days, but when the discomfort didn't abate, I called a Christian Science practitioner to pray with me. Shortly after our conversation, I turned to God and said, "Father, please show me what it is I need to know." Immediately, a visit from a relative some months back came to thought. I'd felt that this person had been very unkind to me, and I'd been quite disturbed by it. Right away, I realized that this concept of anyone as an unkind mortal needed to be replaced with the truth of our real nature as the reflection of God, who is infinite Love. The man and woman of God's creating, then, can only be loving, lovable, and loved. As I thought about this truth, I felt completely well again. The reaction to my relative that I'd been holding on to all that time dissolved, and along with it, every bit of physical pain. My normal strength returned, and I slept peacefully through the night. The next morning, I told my wife that I was hungry, and then enjoyed a full breakfast. That afternoon I returned to work, rejoicing.

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