Testimony of Healing August 15, 2011 Issue

Chronic pain and desire to die healed

Linda Kay Davidson

In 2005, about a year and a half into a difficult divorce process, I began experiencing severe, chronic pain in my abdomen. My own prayers would bring me relief, and when I didn’t feel I could pray for myself, I would call for supportive prayer from a Christian Science practitioner. I felt comforted and reassured during these prayerful times, and I knew on some level that healing was taking place in my thought. It seemed, though, that a pattern had developed of painful and painless times, which continued on even after the divorce had been settled.

With the ongoing prayerful support from Christian Science practitioners I contacted at different times, I gained little by little in the understanding of God and Her nature as the reality of my existence. I was accepting the fact that God creates and supports Her creation with perfect and never-ending love. As I claimed myself as God’s reflection, I could see myself mirroring the qualities of divine Mind. I remember how wonderfully free I felt each time I contemplated that it was God caring for me. I knew I could place my complete trust in that all-inclusive Love and feel its effect tangibly every moment. I gained much confidence as I chose to rely on and stay with the many spiritual truths in the Holy Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy.

In Mrs. Eddy’s message to The Mother Church titled Christian Science versus Pantheism, I found this statement: “Finally, brethren, let us continue to denounce evil as the illusive claim that God is not supreme, and continue to fight it until it disappears,—but not as one that beateth the mist, but lifteth his head above it and putteth his foot upon a lie” (p. 6).

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