Testimony of Healing April 4, 2011 Issue

Indications of sciatica dissolve

Victor Wegelin, Richard L. Tradewell

In the summer of 2009, I began waking up every morning with pain shooting down my left leg. I needed a cane to support myself in the mornings, and though I could walk unassisted after an hour or so, it was difficult and I often felt I was going to fall. I attributed the condition to a safari tour I’d taken in Africa earlier in the year, where we were in rough-riding vehicles, on very bumpy roads, for many hours each day.

My daughter-in-law, a physical trainer, described these symptoms as an indication of sciatica, for which treatment is seen as difficult (physicians generally recommend drugs to help manage the pain). The claim was that I was just getting older and falling apart.

Though several of my friends recommended medical treatment, I knew I wanted to overcome this condition through prayer alone, as Christian Science had always proved effective and reliable for me. I called a Christian Science practitioner, and he pointed me to a passage in Science and Health that reads, “Adhesion, cohesion, and attraction are properties of Mind” (p. 124), reminding me that if cohesiveness is a property of God, Mind, then everything about me, including my body, my moral ideals, and my consciousness of good, is cohesive, never disintegrating. No decay could ever exist in Mind. I fully express God’s wholeness, completeness, and cohesiveness, forever.

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