Testimony of Healing August 26, 2013 ISSUE

The joy that is mine

Vienna McMurtry

In late 2008, I was invited to stay at my friends’ high-rise condo overlooking San Diego Bay while they would be away for three months. Loving San Diego, and being able to do my work as a Christian Science practitioner from anywhere in the world, made the decision easy for me. So I packed up the car, took the pup, and off we went from Missouri, where I was living at the time, to California.

The stay at my friends’ condo was great. Everything was going perfectly. Then with about three weeks of my stay left, my shoulder began to hurt. I prayed knowing my oneness with God, as I had learned to do in Christian Science. I understood that no discordant condition could attach itself to me, as God’s spiritual reflection. However, by evening the pain was quite severe. I couldn’t lie down, I couldn’t stand, and walking the dog was done in tears. By the next morning, despite my heartfelt reaching out to God for help, fear had set in, and I decided to call a Christian Science practitioner for prayerful treatment.

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