Testimony of Healing August 20, 2012 Issue

Hymns heal

Margaret Penfield

About a year and a half ago, I was home alone and between activities for my two teenage children. It was a welcome relief to be in an empty house for a while. But about 15 minutes after this quiet time started, a sharp pain began to develop in my stomach. At first I thought, What caused this? What did I eat? Why is this happening? 

But then, just as quickly, came the thought: God has not caused this pain, it is untrue, so don’t accept it. I wish I could say that this simple idea healed me right then and there, but I still had more to learn.

As I hobbled into the kitchen to check on some food cooking in the oven, a thought came to me to sing. So I asked God what it was I should sing, and a song popped into my head from a CD, produced by The Christian Science Publishing Society, that I had played many times to my children when they were young. One line from the song was very similar to a sentence found in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: “As a drop of water is one with the ocean, a ray of light one with the sun, even so God and man, Father and son, are one in being” (p. 361).  

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