Testimony of Healing January 3, 2011 Issue

‘Seeing is believing’

Robert Braun

Last June, I had to take an eye exam. I don’t wear glasses, but the exam was required for my driver’s license renewal. I’ve had to undergo this procedure, which tests for distance vision, almost every time I’ve renewed, because I’ve lived in six different states since first getting my license as a teenager. Now, even though I haven’t changed legal residence for some time, the Division of Motor Vehicles judges me to be old enough to need such tests more and more frequently.

It had become more difficult each of the last few times I took the eye test. I found I had go farther and farther down the electronic chart to read lines of larger and larger letters. The last time, five or six years ago, the examiner said I just barely squeaked by without glasses. While my reading wasn’t affected, I had had some trouble seeing road signs and other things at a distance before.

This time, during the months preceding the exam, I had been doing Christian Science metaphysical work to heal what seemed to be a serious illness. A big part of that work involved carefully reading and rereading Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. I was focused on getting to know God better, and while I wasn’t praying specifically about the idea of sight at first, I had a powerful sense of seeing more deeply into the spiritual concepts I was reading. I often spoke with a Christian Science practitioner, who was helping me prayerfully, and just about every time we would discuss what I was reading in Science and Health, I would hear myself saying things like, “I’m seeing so many new things in the textbook”; “I’m seeing things I’ve never seen before”; or “I’m seeing so much more deeply into what Mrs. Eddy wrote.” (The acute symptoms of the illness were healed, too, as I prayed.)