Distracting sound in ear stopped

Helga Knispel

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
—John 8:32

I loved how this quote from the Bible was highlighted in a recent online testimony meeting of The Mother Church. The testifier mentioned that after diligently praying to overcome severe hemorrhaging, she didn’t doubt the Truth, but there were times where she doubted her ability to trust her understanding of this Truth. The healing thought she shared went something like this: “It is enough for us to know the truth, but it is Truth itself which reveals the freedom.”

I had an experience where the same recognition resulted in a healing. It was at a time when I had a lot of different tasks to accomplish. I remember that I acknowledged God for the needed strength on a daily, even hourly, basis, and I was grateful every single day to do the needed work. Yet one day I started to have a continuous distracting tone in my ear.

How grateful I was having learned through Christian Science that true hearing means “to know,” that is, to understand that God is the only communicator and that He communicates only peaceful, intelligent, useful ideas. I was very much determined to listen to His voice, to be tuned in to His “station,” which is heavenly.

No suggestion of life in matter, no material organ, no electrical waves or claim of stress could prevent me from hearing—reflecting—the harmonies that God communicates to His whole universe. In Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy we read: “EARS. Not organs of the so-called corporeal senses, but spiritual understanding” (p. 585).

I knew that no belief of noisy turbulence could ever separate me from hearing His Word of Love and Truth. And I insisted on my eternal right to hear Truth—undefiled, unfettered, and uncontaminated. My love for His Word would certainly silence every false tone.

These words by Mary Baker Eddy in No. 304 in the Christian Science Hymnal: “I will listen for Thy voice” and in No. 300 “Saw ye my Saviour? Heard ye the glad sound?” helped me to “un-hear” those distracting tones (emphasis added). I was so busy with the right kind of listening that I couldn’t even tell you when the distracting tone stopped. Having no cause in divine Mind it just had to yield.

Hymn 313 reads: “True praise shall tune my voice” (William Cowper). I would like to enlarge its application by saying: “True praise shall tune my hearing.”

Helga Knispel
Hamburg, Germany

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