Testimony of Healing September 9, 2013 Issue

Eye inflammation cleared

Peter Bartlett Cooper

In August 2012, I was asked to substitute as First Reader in my branch church for a Wednesday and a Sunday. On the Friday before the Sunday service, one of my eyes began to itch very much and water heavily. The extreme redness of that eye and its sensitivity to any light made it hard to keep the eye open. I had never experienced anything like this before. I called a Christian Science practitioner for treatment because, after a day of praying about this, I saw no progress and doubted that I could fulfill the duties of Reader for the Sunday service. 

The practitioner assured me that with God’s support I would be able to serve in my post. When I tried to figure out the cause of this condition, the practitioner helped me understand that God is the only cause, and only good can result from this divine Cause. I was able to successfully complete that First Reader Sunday assignment. Each day, as I worked with the practitioner, studied the Christian Science Bible Lesson, and prayed, I turned my thought away from the symptoms and wrote down simple truths focused on healing. I held to a couple of statements Mary Baker Eddy makes on pages 214–215 of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: “Neither age nor accident can interfere with the senses of Soul, and there are no other real senses,” and “Spirit’s senses are without pain, and they are forever at peace.” 

Each month, I volunteer at a Salvation Army soup kitchen. On the appointed day, when I came in for duty, the cook-supervisor offered his opinion that I appeared to have conjunctivitis. Because he was abiding by health laws that applied to him and his staff, he sent me home. When I returned to my study, I wrote down this thought: “I am what Spirit creates and governs. No negative outside influence or assessment can ever change this spiritual fact.” 

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