Testimony of Healing January 3, 2011 Issue

‘Everything fell into place’

Chloë Beattie

Late one night I began to feel off-balance and unwell, and awoke early the next morning in a lot of pain. I found I couldn’t stand up for long, and felt like I needed to remain lying down. I threw up and didn’t have any appetite. The weariness was so intense that I worried that I would be in bed for days. 

Because there had been different sicknesses “going round,” I’d been praying through the week that we can be exposed only to God’s allness, to what’s good. Christian Science had taught me to take that mental stand, and to me it was a good foundation for rejecting fearful thoughts about contagion. 

At this point I was grateful to enlist the support of a Christian Science practitioner. A spiritual insight she shared with me that lifted my thought refers to a “divinely united spiritual consciousness,” in which “there is no impediment to eternal bliss,—to the perfectibility of God’s creation.” This is from page 577 of Science and Health. The concept that there is no impediment to eternal bliss encompassed my thought so sweetly, and the idea not only felt true for me but embraced everyone. 

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