Article July 4, 2011 Issue

Prayer about pain

Caryl Farkas

Caryl Farkas, a practitioner and teacher of Christian Science from Madison, Wisconsin, was the guest on this Sentinel audio chat. This chat has been edited for readability. 

Host: Do you have some thoughts to get us started?

Caryl: Yes, I thought I’d open with something Mary Baker Eddy had to say about pain. She wrote: “. . . pain compels human consciousness to escape from sense into the immortality and harmony of Soul” (Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896, p. 85). Those words are a very accurate description of a healing that brought me back into Christian Science. I’d been away from it for some 15 years, and I’d been living with chronic pain associated with a condition called endometriosis. The doctors that I’d seen all referred to these intense sensations as “phantom pain.” But on many days they were the most real thing in my life. 

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