Article October 10, 2011 Issue

Stomachache healed

Laudes

A few months ago I woke up in the morning, washed myself, and went to school as usual. After the first period my stomach started hurting. My classmates suggested I should ask for permission to go home. But I didn’t follow their advice. I stayed in school. I lay down on a bench and I started to pray the way I always do when I don’t feel well. I thought about the lessons I was learning in the Christian Science Sunday School. This is how I thought: “I am the image of God. I am like God. I am not material, but spiritual. In God’s kingdom there is no sickness.” 

I remembered a story from the Bible that our Sunday School teacher had told us. It was about a paralyzed man who was healed when Jesus said to him: “Rise, take up your bed and walk” (John 5:8, New King James Version). The paralyzed man was happy to be able to walk again. 

As I thought about this story, I understood that I, too, could be blessed by what Jesus had said. And I could be healed immediately. I also prayed with the truths from “the scientific statement of being” in Science and Health (see p. 468) that I knew by heart. They told me that I was completely spiritual. 

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