Testimony of Healing August 23, 2010 Issue

HEALING OF SHOULDER PAIN

First printed in Le Heraut de la Science Chretienne, the French edition of The Herald of Christian Science.

JEANNINE MULLER

One day in March 2008, I felt a sharp pain in my right shoulder, which became so severe that I could no longer raise my arm, a serious handicap especially when trying to feed and bathe myself.

As is my custom when confronting any type of difficulty, I immediately reached out to God, firmly acknowledging the perfection of His creation, of which I am a part as His perfect idea, His well-beloved child.

After a few days, since the intense pain persisted, I asked for help from a Christian Science practitioner, who was in Asia at the time. I sent him a brief text message from my cellphone, a call for help that he received just before boarding a plane. He replied immediately, reminding me specifically that I was the expression of God's being, a perfect and free idea, that I knew this and understood this, and that, as a result, I could not be touched by the physical appearance of pain and of a curtailing of my freedom. He reminded me of this passage from Science and Health: "Mind is the source of all movement, and there is no inertia to retard or check its perpetual and harmonious action" (p. 283). I held on firmly to this truth, with a lot of certainty.

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