Testimony of Healing May 26, 2014 Issue

Pride rebuked, healing follows

Carol Baughman

Last year, while hosting a Christmas party for family and friends, I was toasting some canapés in the broiler. When I reached into the oven my finger touched the hot electric element. I cried out in pain but then quickly began telling myself the truth. By this I mean I knew, or realized, that God was caring for me and that “under divine Providence there can be no accidents, since there is no room for imperfection in perfection” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 424). The pain was quickly gone. Several people came to see what was going on and I assured them I was all right.

A week later, my husband and I had many of the same people in our home to welcome the New Year. The conversation drifted to current prevailing ailments and what medicines and remedies people in the group were using. I was thinking “Why don’t they catch on to what a blessing Christian Science is when they have seen me instantly healed and freed from pain, several times in fact, and as recently as last week? Why don’t they ‘get it’?”

The next day, Sunday, I was slammed with very aggressive symptoms of a cold. Church was canceled because of an ice storm, so I stayed home. I felt miserable, and it seemed as if my prayers and professions of truth were to no avail.

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