Testimony of Healing September 24, 2012 Issue

Free of chest pains

Charlene Ann Beck

One Wednesday evening, while driving to my branch church, I was listening to a Sentinel Radio CD and feeling grateful for the inspiring accounts of healing on the program. Suddenly, I experienced chest pains and restricted breathing. I briefly considered turning back toward home, but I recognized the symptoms as a lie about my health—an imposition trying to keep me from being in my right place—church.

I knew that God was my author, and no power apart from Him could claim presence or authority in me. In thinking about my love for church, I saw that I include the qualities embodied in the spiritual, true sense of Church that Mary Baker Eddy defines as: “The structure of Truth and Love; …” (Science and Health with Key to the Scripture, p. 583). 

At that point in the Sentinel Radio program, a mother was talking about praying for her child. She began quoting Mary Baker Eddy’s description of man: “Man is not matter; he is not made up of brain, blood, bones, and other material elements. The Scriptures inform us that man is made in the image and likeness of God. Matter is not that likeness” (Science and Health, p. 475).