Testimony of Healing May 20, 2013 Issue

Logic and love of Christian healing

Stephen Lapointe

One day several years ago, I began to feel a persistent pain in my chest. Though I was concerned, I hoped that it would just dissolve quickly so I could go about my business as usual. But it didn’t. I began feeling weak and not able to move with normal freedom. When I went to sleep at night, I found I had to sleep in a certain position on my back.

It was only through prayer that I was able to resist the pull of fear. I regularly declared to myself, silently, both during the day and before I went to sleep, that I was spiritual: I was the expression of God, Spirit. And that meant nothing unlike Spirit could be a part of my being. One statement from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy came to me as a corollary to this foundational truth: “A spiritual idea has not a single element of error, and this truth removes properly whatever is offensive” (p. 463).

I also regularly read the first paragraph of the answer to the question “What is man?” from “Recapitulation,” the chapter in Science and Health used for teaching Christian Science in Primary class instruction. It includes the statement: “The Scriptures inform us that man is made in the image and likeness of God. Matter is not that likeness. The likeness of Spirit cannot be so unlike Spirit” (p. 475).

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