Testimony of Healing June 3, 2013 ISSUE

Arm pain gone

Joan Greig

One day several years ago, I found I couldn’t lift my right arm to brush my teeth, arrange my hair, or do any other daily task without a lot of pain. This seemed to come out of the blue, with no apparent cause. At that time, I’d been thinking and praying about individuals I knew who had experienced heart attacks or strokes—conditions which frequently seem to come out of nowhere. But I hadn’t been able to get much clarity.

I called a Christian Science practitioner to pray with me. I don’t recall exactly what she said, but shortly after our conversation, the words from a song in the movie The Sound of Music began running through my thought. The song was “Something Good,” and the specific words that came to me were: “Nothing comes from nothing, / Nothing ever could.” This arrested my attention.

Of course, logically speaking, nothing does come from nothing—like produces like. But I took these lyrics one step further and reasoned that something doesn’t come from nothing, because everything of substance has a cause, God.  

Mary Baker Eddy wrote in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: “There is but one primal cause. Therefore there can be no effect from any other cause, and there can be no reality in aught which does not proceed from this great and only cause” (p. 207 ). I saw that because God is the only cause, nothing unlike God could have a cause, nor could it have an effect. God, good, doesn’t cause pain or any other physical difficulty.

The third day after calling the practitioner, and soon after recognizing that there was no cause for my discomfort, the pain in my arm was gone and I was able to use it freely. 

I’m so grateful for the ever-presence of God, who communicates to each of us just what we need in every circumstance. These communications are the angel messages that show us all is well.

Joan Greig
Aurora, Ohio, US

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