Testimony of Healing October 7, 2013 Issue

Keeping company with angels

Janet Bland

One day, about a year ago, I woke early, but was unable to get up because I felt very dizzy. As I lay in bed, I thoughtfully prayed with some ideas I like to think about before getting up in the morning. I especially focused on the Lord’s Prayer (see Matthew 6:9–13) and its spiritual interpretation, which Mary Baker Eddy gives in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (pp. 16–17). This prayer is always so familiar and comforting.

About half an hour later, I tried to get up again but could not. My head was swimming, and I was afraid I might fall over. I reached for my iPod and lay there listening to the weekly Christian Science Bible Lesson. The subject was “Christ Jesus.” I listened thoughtfully to every word, claiming the spiritual truths stated as facts of my being and recognizing the spiritual identity of man, which was so clearly expressed through Jesus’ ministry.

Soon, my husband came to see why I was not up as early as usual. I was so grateful that he gave me some much-needed support. When he went to make me something to drink, I managed to sit at the edge of the bed and gain some balance. I declared “the scientific statement of being” many times to myself. This statement ends with, “… man is not material; he is spiritual” (Science and Health, p. 468). This helped me claim my established relationship as God’s loved child, not a suffering mortal.

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