Testimony of Healing May 20, 2013 ISSUE

Health on a plane

Eric Oyama

Several years ago, I took a cross-country flight from Boston to San Diego, California. The weather in Boston was cold, heavy, wintry rain. Once aboard, I could hear coughing, sneezing, and blowing of noses.

When the plane door closed, a person nearby stated that now she was going be sick after being cooped up with so many contagious people. Soon it seemed the whole plane, including me, had joined together in a kind of “symphony” of illness.

I had my Bible and Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures out and was reading them, trying to find needed inspiration so I didn’t get sick. But I seemed to be losing the battle. Then, while hunting for yet another tissue, I realized what I had been doing.

I had been praying to be kept safe from all these sick people and to keep illness from spreading to me! What I needed to see was that because God is good and filling all space, there just couldn’t be any room for illness of any kind. Because God, Spirit, is real and intelligent, matter and illness couldn’t be real or intelligent. I thought of one of Jesus’ parables. The tiny but powerful mustard seed, representing the kingdom of heaven, spreads throughout the field (see Matthew 13:31, 32 ). So, too, I realized, the presence of the Christ that removes fear and illness could “spread,” could be felt, throughout the plane. I kept praying and held on to the spiritual fact that because God is good, all power, filling all space—All-in-all—then there just could not be any room for something called contagion to move, act, or have power to do evil.

By the time we were a third of the way across the country, the sounds of illness had stopped. The only mention of it later was from a flight attendant on my way off the plane. She told me that she’d been afraid she was going to become sick from the passengers, and had started to feel some symptoms coming on, but now she felt fine. I felt fine, too, and had a wonderful trip.

Eric Oyama
Los Angeles, California, US

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