Testimony of Healing January 28, 2013 Issue

Our cat was healed

Sharon Sinclair

Some 25 years ago while I was serving in our community Christian Science Reading Room, a fellow church member was walking by and heard kitten cries from a densely leafed bush. I was unable to extricate the kitten, but soon my husband arrived and was able to get her out. It was clear the kitten had been abandoned, so we decided to keep her and named her Missy. Over the years Missy brought us much joy and happiness as well as opportunities to prove God’s presence and healing power. Missy taught us many helpful spiritual lessons such as patience, persistence, and absolute faith and trust in the allness of Spirit, God.

When Missy was about eight years old, I came home from work one day and was informed by my husband that she had about a one-inch twig protruding from both sides of her jaw. After unsuccessfully trying to remove it, he had made Missy comfortable and started praying. I had been raised in Christian Science and had witnessed many healings through prayer for me, my four brothers and sisters, and parents—so I was confident that nothing was impossible to God. I knew that prayer as taught in Christian Science is effective.

I immediately joined my husband in silent prayer and acknowledged the ever-presence and omnipotence of God, good. I quietly affirmed the power and presence of divine Love. I knew that God filled all space and that all God’s ideas, including Missy, were always under God’s protection and loving care. A partial statement from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy came to thought and brought me peace: “Accidents are unknown to God.” The entire statement reads, “Accidents are unknown to God, or immortal Mind, and we must leave the mortal basis of belief and unite with the one Mind, in order to change the notion of chance to the proper sense of God’s unerring direction and thus bring out harmony” (p. 424).

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