Testimony of Healing September 30, 2013 ISSUE

Shingles healed

Patti C. Christopher

From 1986 through 1992 I dealt daily with a case of shingles following a rare case of scarlet fever that my doctor told me I’d contracted during a hospital stay during the birth of my second child. Relapses occurred during that period, and I was using a new drug to fight them. I wasn’t a Christian Scientist at the time, although I was a soloist for a branch Church of Christ, Scientist. I wanted to join a branch church and The Mother Church, and to be free of reliance on medications.

I found that any temper outburst or fear sent me back into the associated pain. As I studied Mary Baker Eddy’s book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures and the Bible on a daily basis, my ability to remain peaceful and free of fear of the pain became easier and easier. I also began to wean myself away from the medication and gradually relied solely on prayer.

One of the truths I lived with came from Science and Health: “The divine metaphysics of Christian Science, like the method in mathematics, proves the rule by inversion. For example: There is no pain in Truth, and no truth in pain; no nerve in Mind, and no mind in nerve; no matter in Mind, and no mind in matter; no matter in Life, and no life in matter; no matter in good, and no good in matter” (p. 113 ). I spent most of my prayer on those first two parts, acknowledging that, as the image and likeness of Truth, I could have no pain because there was no truth in pain.

As I prayed along those lines, the pain lessened and then disappeared. Later in 1996, after I had taken class instruction in Christian Science, I came home equipped with another concept that helped me really conquer anger: “When you refuse to react, you destroy the bridge over which error can reach you.” 

I recognized that reacting in anger was not acting in a loving way. I saw that patiently refraining from any reactions to stressful situations by knowing that God was in control and was the governor of the entire universe permanently removed all evidence of shingles. Since 1996 I have been free of all symptoms of that disease and have had no recurrence of it.

Patti C. Christopher
Metairie, Louisiana, US

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