Testimony of Healing January 18, 2010 Issue

MOBILITY QUICKLY RESTORED

MISSY WILLIAMS

My husband and I took a road trip this past summer, driving from our home in the Midwest to Washington, DC. A few hours before arriving in the city, we took a break at a rest stop. Getting out of the car, I suddenly realized that I was unable to put any weight on one of my legs, nor could I walk. I should add that my leg wasn't "asleep," nor was it numb.

As I was mentally sizing up the situation, I could feel fear and self-diagnosis grab hold of my thoughts and start yanking away from me my ability to think from a correct spiritual standpoint. It felt as if my mental freedom was being challenged and overrun. But I knew from prior experience that prayer heals, and I also knew that I had spiritual authority not to let what Science and Health terms "error"—or the contradiction of God, Truth—wrest control of my thinking (see p. 472). So I silently protested with a persistent "No." Leaning against the car for support, I turned to God and prayed like this: "OK, God. You are Truth. And You destroy error. What exact, specific, healing idea are You telling me right this moment that destroys the error?"

For the past several months, I'd been deeply pondering the idea that "Truth destroys error" as I prepared to attend a church-related meeting that was coming up in a few weeks. All during this time, I was gaining a fresh outlook on, and appreciation for, God's allness and supremacy, and the "no-power" and nothingness of evil, or error. So it felt perfectly natural to expect God would give me an answer that would lead to healing, even right there at the rest stop.

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