Testimony of Healing December 9, 2013 ISSUE

Joint pain healed

Laurie Zollinger

Over a year ago, I was experiencing aching and tiredness in my joints. It became difficult to stand up after I’d been sitting for a while. Even when I was sitting, my shoulders and neck ached, and this didn’t seem to get better even after sleeping at night. This went on for many days. At first, I thought it would just go away since this seemed to have come “out of the blue.”

One evening my husband, who is not a Christian Scientist, saw my discomfort and offered to get me a pain reliever. This woke me up to seeing that I needed to do some prayerful work. I thanked him for his concern and assured him I would take care of it through prayer instead.

Since it was late, I went to bed, and while lying there, I prayed with many verses from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, that I had memorized in Sunday School many years before. I prayed with the Lord’s Prayer (see Matthew 6:9–13 ), and its spiritual interpretation found in Science and Health (pp. 16–17 ); the “scientific statement of being” (p. 468 ); and the answer to the question “What is man?” (p. 475 ), which states, in part, that “man is not matter; he is not made up of brain, blood, bones, and other material elements.” I fell asleep with these thoughts, and even when I awoke during the night, my thoughts were full of these truths.

When I awoke in the morning, I sat down to study the week’s Christian Science Bible Lesson and then picked up the Sentinel from February 8, 2010, and turned to an article titled “A clear healing line of thought” by Justin Marples. In it the writer told about a hip condition and that at one point suggestions came to him about where it might have come from—heredity, injury, overuse. But he realized that disease, or the “error” of believing in a power besides God, is nothing, so it couldn’t really come from anywhere except wrong thinking.

All of a sudden, a light bulb came on in my head! I realized that I had been resentful of a situation at work, of losing my days off and having to work six days a week. I realized that as one of God’s children, the perfect image and likeness of Him (see Genesis 1:26, 27 ), I was expressing spiritual qualities all the time, everywhere, and it didn’t matter if I was at work, home, or play. My true job is being the expression of divine Love.

As soon as I realized this, it felt as if someone had lifted a huge weight off my shoulders. The pain and aching vanished from my body and has not returned.

I’m very grateful for Christian Science, the Christian Science periodicals, and for the Sunday School teachers who asked me to memorize passages from the Bible and Science and Health, which have stayed with me throughout my life.

Laurie Zollinger
Grand Rapids, Ohio, US

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