Article May 24, 2010 Issue

HEALING INCURABLE DISEASE—WITH CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Marian English

A recent spirituality.com chat featured Marian English, a practitioner and teacher of Christian Science in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Marian has traveled throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, speaking on Christian Science. Beginning in two weeks she will serving as Second Reader for The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston. The chat has been edited for readability. To read and/or listen to the whole chat, go to http://spirituality.com/chats/incurable.

In your experience, what has been especially helpful in bringing about the healing of an incurable disease?

If I try to heal what I'm thinking of as an incurable disease, I can feel overwhelmed, like this can't be done. But if I take an entirely different standpoint, that I'm not trying to make matter better, but I'm making apparent what God has already done, then it becomes doable. I'm not doing something spectacular; I'm simply praying to see that God has made everything that was made. He made man in His image and likeness—that includes male and female. And when I start from that standpoint of making God's work apparent, like it says in the Psalms, "Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law" (119:18), then it becomes doable and not so formidable.

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