A friend of mine once mentioned that a uterine infection had left her bedridden for days, and she had taken antibiotics for many weeks. 

A few weeks later, in February 2012, I started experiencing the same symptoms. The severest of them was heavy bleeding, which was not part of my menstrual cycle. I realized that my friend had described the symptoms in detail and that, without realizing it, I had taken into my thought those symptoms.

I immediately contacted a Christian Science practitioner and asked her to help me through prayer. After our conversation, I felt a sense of confidence that kept me from being frightened by the bleeding.

I had a busy week ahead because I had various commitments scheduled and needed to meet with people in many different places. The condition was bothersome, but I was still able to fulfill my commitments. I attended all the meetings, filled with a boundless trust that I, as the reflection of God, Spirit, could not manifest any kind of dysfunction, only the perfection of my spiritual identity.

I also realized that I could never be a victim of any kind of contagion, physical or mental, through ideas that I might have accepted into my thought unawares.

My prayers elevated my thought to God so that I could prove these words by Mary Baker Eddy: “A calm, Christian state of mind is a better preventive of contagion than a drug, or than any other possible sanative method; and the ‘perfect Love’ that ‘casteth out fear’ is a sure defense” (Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896, p. 229).

I acknowledged that God had never been absent, not even when I was talking with my friend. In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mrs. Eddy wrote: “The intercommunication is always from God to His idea, man” (p. 284).

I understood that all true ideas are transmitted directly from God to man (a term that includes all men, women, and children), and not from person to person or from human mind to human mind. If the ideas come from God, they can only be thoughts of good, of health and harmony, never of sickness, inharmony, or discord. The ideas of God are constantly flowing to all His children, including my friend and me. Therefore, just as disease was no part of the true nature of my being in the spiritual likeness of God, I understood that, in divine reality, it also was never part of my friend’s experience.

With the practitioner’s support, I prayed with these concepts for three days as the bleeding diminished. At the end of the third day, it had completely stopped and has not returned.

This healing was very important to me, because through it, I grasped a deeper awareness of my true identity as a child of God. It also sparked in me the desire to learn more about healing through prayer, which led me to take Christian Science Primary class instruction a few months later. I am very grateful for the spiritual growth triggered by this experience, which strengthened my trust that I could find healing and solutions to any problem through an understanding of God.

Name removed by request
São Paulo, Brazil