Testimony of Healing May 21, 2012 Issue

Growth healed

Hank Teller

Over two years ago, I noticed a growth on top of my head. I did some rather casual prayerful work, knowing that God is the only cause and that all real growth is spiritual. I thought the growth would dissipate by itself, as other smaller ones had in the past. Yet this growth increased in size and hardened, taking on an ugly appearance as months went by. Soon it became difficult to conceal when I combed my hair, and I frequently wore a baseball cap to cover the area. 

I realized that I needed to pray more fervently about the situation, and over the following year I sought the support of Christian Science practitioners at different times. The spiritual growth I felt during this period was huge and most gratifying as I understood more of my true, entirely spiritual nature as a child of God made in His image and likeness (see Genesis 1:26, 27). Yet there was no change in the appearance of the growth. 

A breakthrough came during correspondence with a practitioner. In discussing the illusionary nature of evil, she mentioned that if something didn’t seem to be real, it wouldn’t be an illusion! That was the very definition of an illusion. That idea really got my attention, and I saw even more clearly that the growth was only a phenomenon of material sense and no part of my real being. 

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