Testimony of Healing December 16, 2013 Issue

Neck pain and stiffness gone

Elizabeth Ann Wild

As a lifelong Christian Scientist, I have had many experiences where the efficacy of the religion’s teachings has been evident. But for many years, I had never experienced a healing that involved a sudden change in the physical picture, although on many occasions I felt symptoms had been fended off when I claimed my oneness with God, as St. Paul’s statement in Romans 8:38, 39 encourages us to do.

Earlier this year my neck became so stiff that I was unable to turn my head. The condition was very painful, and it was difficult for me to drive since I was unable to look comfortably behind me or to the side. Despite my prayers, the pain seemed to get worse over the next three days. 

The Christian Science Bible Lesson that week emphasized the concept of reflection, and I could see so clearly that as God’s perfect reflection I could manifest only the same qualities that belonged to God. I also found this passage from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy very helpful: “Be firm in your understanding that the divine Mind governs, and that in Science man reflects God’s government. Have no fear that matter can ache, swell, and be inflamed as the result of a law of any kind, when it is self-evident that matter can have no pain nor inflammation” (p. 393).

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