Testimony of Healing September 5, 2011 Issue

A quick healing

Jack Train

One morning several years ago, I began to feel some prickly numbness in my left foot, much like an ice skater feels when he or she has skated in cold weather a little too long and takes the skates off so the foot will “wake up” again. It was annoying, but I didn’t think much about it until the next day it seemed to get worse and include more of my foot. At that point, I began to pray to affirm that “. . . ‘there is no death, no inaction, diseased action, overaction, nor reaction’ ” (Science and Health, pp. 427–428). I knew that inharmonious action did not come from God, and that, in Truth, the only action there is has its source in God. I recognized that mortal mind and mortal body have only the power we accede to them, since omnipotent divine Mind, God, governs all. 

Later that morning, however, while I was at work, I started to become genuinely concerned. The numbness had begun to travel up my leg, and fear crept in—where would it stop?  

I knew that this kind of thinking was counterproductive so I called a Christian Science practitioner for help. He gave me a mental shake and reminded me that my being was not controlled by nerves, brain, heart, or any other physical element. I had proved this some years back when I had been healed of a heart irregularity, and I knew that I could count on this truth to lift my frightened thought above the seeming physical problem into recognition of God’s harmonious kingdom and my place in it. I began to hum hymns from the Christian Science Hymnal: “I walk with Love along the way” (Minnie M. H. Ayers, No. 139 ), and “Everlasting arms of Love / Are beneath, around, above; / God it is who bears us on” (No. 53), and “In atmosphere of Love divine, / We live, and move, and breathe” (No. 144). These uplifted my thought and returned me to a confident sense of expectation at seeing God’s love and harmonious action demonstrated. 