Testimony of Healing July 2, 2012 Issue

Freed from fear of wind

Melonie Winn

When we completed building our home, our contractor advised us that we should stay downstairs during any windy weather, as the main part of the house does not have an attic and we are surrounded by tall pines. We have lived here for 12 years, and this never bothered me until about five years ago, when I suddenly became very fearful of windy weather. 

Each year it became more difficult to deal with this fear. Every time windy weather was predicted, I would constantly check the hour-by-hour forecast on the weather channel to find out when the peak times would be and when it would be over. It got to the point where I couldn’t even hear a mention of the word wind without feeling my stomach turn. At night there was one spot upstairs where I felt somewhat safe, but still the fear would be so overpowering that I would start shaking and couldn’t stop, and sometimes even found it difficult to breathe. 

After a couple of years of dealing with this, it was suggested that I had three choices on how to handle the fear. One was to stay in a hotel during storms, another was to put the house up for sale and move, and the third was to heal it. The first two suggestions were not options for me, so I knew I had to heal it. As Mary Baker Eddy advises in Science and Health, I had to “master fear” (p. 197). 

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