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. 

About the author

Laudes first shared his healing in the kids' edition of The Herald of Christian Science that was published in French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish in July 2011.

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