Testimony of Healing August 17, 2009 Issue

A LIFE FILLED WITH HEALING

KAYE PATTERSON

Almost 50 years ago, as a small-town Texas girl, I thought I knew God. But, after marrying a Christian Scientist, I discovered there was much more to learn about how God knew me.

The windows of my mind were blown open when I read about how Jesus healed. This passage in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy was particularly inspiring: "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick. Thus Jesus taught that the kingdom of God is intact, universal, and that man is pure and holy" (pp. 476–477).

Statements like that shook my view of my fellow men and women, and myself! I had thought there were two worlds, two realities—one divine, and the other a flawed mortal experience. But I was learning that Jesus' healings resulted from humble yielding to the one true view, God's perspective of His perfect, spiritual creation. And Christian Science was showing me that there was one Creator and one creation. One Cause—God—and one effect, man.

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