Sudden sickness healed
One morning as I sat at my computer, I noticed that the screen and the words were going blurry. I felt faint and began to have chills and to perspire excessively. I was alone in my home office and called out to my wife, who did not hear my shouts because she was in another part of the house.
Immediately I repeated “the scientific statement of being” from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. It reads: “There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual” (p. 468 ).
This spiritual truth arrested my slide into fainting, but I continued to have perspiration and chills. A very clear thought came to me to use my cellphone to reach my wife. It was nearby, and I had enough strength to open it up and hit the automatic dial of our residence phone number.
My wife answered and could hear my distress. She realized that I was in trouble and immediately came to my office. As she helped me, I was able to focus on spiritual statements such as Mrs. Eddy’s command: “Rise in the strength of Spirit to resist all that is unlike good. God has made man capable of this, and nothing can vitiate the ability and power divinely bestowed on man” (Science and Health, p. 393 ). I also held to her statement elsewhere in Science and Health: “Truth is an alterative in the entire system, and can make it ‘every whit whole’ ” (p. 371 ).
As I focused on these statements, I found I had the strength to relocate from my office to our bedroom in another part of the house. My wife supported me in doing so, and prayed aloud with me as we walked.
When I got to our bedroom, I lay down. My wife lovingly covered me with a blanket as I continued to focus on praying. I knew that I am the reflection of God, who is All and only good, and that these symptoms were not from God but were instead a false supposition attempting to convince me of their physical reality. Within moments I was able to gain some calmness, and as I continued to focus on the above statements, I felt a sensation rolling through my body. With that, all the perspiration and chills ceased.
My wife’s spiritual and practical support was very helpful, and I was able to focus on the fact that I am a reflection of the omnipresent and omnipotent God. Error could not impress me with an assumed reality, and since it did not originate with God, it had no real basis or foundation and could not return or resume. I rested a short time, my wife made me a meal, and I was good to go for the rest of the day. These symptoms have not come back since this healing, which took place over six months ago.
I am very grateful for the truths I have memorized, to Jesus for teaching these truths to all humanity, and to Mary Baker Eddy for her dedication and receptivity in writing Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
Kenfield Kennedy
Los Angeles, California, US
