Healed of symptoms of cancer

Several years ago, I worked for six years as a therapeutic companion and lived in the home of a patient. Every night about 15 people would meet in her home, and they all smoked a lot. After a while, I began finding it hard to breathe, and thought it was because of the smoke. So I asked the relatives of my patient to allow me to go to sleep at my mother’s house.

Since I was not feeling well, I decided to see a doctor in order to calm my mother’s fears.

The doctor ordered an X-ray, and after seeing it, he told me that at best I had ten more years to live and I would develop some kind of atrophy and end up badly. His words struck me in such a way that I simply got up and left. I didn’t want to find out anything else about this condition.

As a consequence of this, I started having nightmares. Although I didn’t realize it at the moment, I was very frightened by the subject of heredity, as my father and several of my uncles had died of lung cancer.

One day I went to see a friend of mine who is a dentist and whose husband is a physician. When she saw me so worried and found out about the situation, she urged me to go see the doctor again. But this time I decided not to go that route, and instead decided to seek help from a Christian Science practitioner, who agreed to support me with his prayers.

I began praying, recognizing that God, divine Spirit, had made me free and that any disorder or breathing problem is no part of my spiritual heritage.

I found a great deal of support in the chapter “Prayer” in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, where Mary Baker Eddy writes, “The habitual struggle to be always good is unceasing prayer” (p. 4 ). And further on she says, “Divine Love corrects and governs man” (p. 6 ). I began to see that there were some issues I needed to resolve in my own thinking. Among them, that I wasn’t happy with my job, and also that I felt overwhelmed by outstanding debts. All this brought a sense of guilt that caused inharmony in my thinking.

I also saw that instead of always keeping in mind that God is Love, I kept thinking about the inherited diseases in my family, plus being concerned about my financial situation. This realization prompted me to be more persistent in my daily study of Christian Science.

One day I found this passage in the book Retrospection and Introspection, also by Mrs. Eddy: “The human history needs to be revised, and the material record expunged” (p. 22 ). It was wonderful to find that spiritual man (and woman), created in the image and likeness of God, as stated in the first chapter of Genesis, can never be prone to disease. Man can never fall from his high status because he is one with his Father-Mother God, who always keeps him healthy and full of vitality. I saw that in the same way that nothing could have sentenced me to be sick, my father and my uncles also could never have been sentenced to the disease or separated for an instant from the love of God. As God had never created the disease, it had no reality and couldn’t be inherited. We can inherit only the harmony and good that come from God.

Another passage that helped me says, “To reach heaven, the harmony of being, we must understand the divine Principle of being” (Science and Health, p. 6 ). Principle is one of the synonyms for God and refers to the divine laws that govern the universe of the divine creation, and this includes me.

After praying this way for two or three months, suddenly I noticed that I was feeling well and was free of all the ailments. I no longer felt suffocated, and lost my fear of this condition.

Months later, I had to see a physician to renew my health card, which was required for work and had to be renewed every two years. I told the doctor about my situation and he decided to make a deeper analysis; he even checked my lungs. After the analysis he said I had absolutely no problems and was completely healthy. This healing took place over 20 years ago.

I have no words to thank God and Christian Science for the blessings I’ve received.

Miryam Huart
Ciudad de la Costa, Uruguay