Testimony of Healing January 27, 2014 Issue

Eye back to normal

Wendy Hellyer

I own a small music school located on a property that has additional buildings. I rent out these buildings and keep fairly busy with small maintenance tasks. One night last year, I went to change some batteries in a doorbell for a tenant. I noticed that the old batteries were corroded, so I carefully put the new ones in place. However, as I snapped the cover on, some of the corrosive residue flew out and struck my eye. The instant burning and pain were alarming.

I immediately reached out to God in prayer, and this line from that week’s Christian Science Bible Lesson, “Soul,” was the first statement of truth that came to me: “Neither age nor accident can interfere with the senses of Soul, and there are no other real senses” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 214). The fear that my vision would be impaired ceased. I flushed out my eye while continuing to pray for myself as I was taught through my study of Christian Science and in Christian Science Primary class instruction.

Next, the words “the dreamer and dream are one” came clearly to my thought. I recognized this phrase from Mary Baker Eddy’s statement in Science and Health, which reads, “The history of error is a dream-narrative. The dream has no reality, no intelligence, no mind; therefore the dreamer and dream are one, for neither is true nor real” (p. 530). I reasoned that although I appeared to have experienced an accident, this was an erroneous mental suggestion or “dream” of being a mortal. I focused my prayers on staying mentally awake to the truth of being. I affirmed that I was not a mortal dreamer who is susceptible to accidents because my true selfhood is spiritual. As a reflection or idea of divine Mind, I could only be conscious of God’s protective love. No bit of matter can invade or injure a spiritual idea.

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