Testimony of Healing March 26, 2012 Issue

Healed of sorrow and of flu

Teresa Maria da Silva Ferreira

One day I woke up feeling unwell, with severe symptoms of the flu. I had a fever and no desire to get up. I could barely pray for myself, but I faced up to my sense of discouragement and tried to heal myself through prayer.

However, after two days with no improvement, I decided to call a Christian Science practitioner to ask her to pray with me. The first thing she said was, “Stay with divine Love, and be conscious only of God’s love.” This reminded me of something that I had been praying about for several months. I had wanted to gain a better understanding of divine Love, because I had realized that after my divorce, which had occurred eight years earlier, I had accepted the widespread suggestion that many men are selfish, that all the good men are married, and that many women are victims. I began to see that this is a very wrong indictment of generic “man,” which includes all the men, women, and children of God’s creation, and also of the way God-created men and women relate. Still, I had nurtured the idea that, on many occasions in my life, I had felt a lack of love. 

The practitioner’s comment made me think about how I had been praying. I had started by writing down the following on a piece of paper: “Love never abandoned you. Love has always been present.” So I asked myself, “Do you know why this is so?” But the answer hadn’t come to me.

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