SKIN CONDITION HEALED

RUSSELL WALLACE

Last summer, itchy red dots suddenly began to appear on my arms. They looked like bites from a spider or insect. I was apprehensive because I was scheduled to report to Marine Corps boot camp in just a few weeks, and I was worried that I would not be allowed to enter boot camp with this condition.

My first reaction was to pray about the situation as I'd learned to do in Christian Science. My mom and dad, who are both Christian Scientists, supported me and offered a few helpful spiritual ideas, but I still felt anxious about the situation.

Though I knew I wanted to handle the issue through prayer alone, the itching from the bites was often overpowering. I knew I needed to do something. I even thought about getting some sort of medication to deal with it, but then made a firm decision to handle the problem through prayer.

So I sat down to look at a passage about "the doctrine of Christian Science" in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. I read it a few times: "This is the doctrine of Christian Science: that divine Love cannot be deprived of its manifestation, or object; that joy cannot be turned into sorrow, for sorrow is not the master of joy; that good can never produce evil; that matter can never produce mind nor life result in death. The perfect man—governed by God, his perfect Principle—is sinless and eternal" (p. 304).

The power of those words radiated off the page as I read them. I could feel Mary Baker Eddy's confidence and the spiritual power in that statement. From those words I began to sense the true absoluteness of God. And, as I sat there thinking, I realized that all my previous thoughts about what medication I might be able to take to get rid of my problem were absolutely ridiculous. The truth that God is All-in-all struck me, and I knew right then that I was being taken care of by His love. I knew I was healed.

Almost overnight, the bites and the spots on my skin left as if they'd never been there. I saw so clearly that God was there: Mind was governing me; matter was not. I was so grateful for this experience because I knew that God had given me the confidence to heal and to never doubt my ability or the power of Christian Science.

RUSSELL WALLACE
VENTURA, CALIFORNIA, US

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