No more pain
Originally written in Portuguese, this testimony first appeared in the April 2014 Portuguese, French, German, and Spanish editions of The Herald of Christian Science.
Two years ago, when I was traveling in a foreign country, I began to feel pain when I urinated. The pain quickly became stronger. The next day, during my flight back home, I could barely stay seated because of the pain in the lower part of my back.
By the time I arrived home, I could not walk easily. I needed to use the restroom often. First I was scared, because I didn’t know what was happening to me. But then I decided to apply what I had learned through the study of Christian Science. I also felt the need to calm the fear in my thought, so I decided to ask a Christian Science practitioner to help me through prayer.
The practitioner told me about the importance of recognizing my untouched perfection, as the reflection of God, our Father and creator. He also said to firmly trust that God, who is divine Spirit and Love, has absolute control over His children and governs them harmoniously.
However, over the course of the next day I didn’t get better. When I could not bear the pain anymore, I called the practitioner again. He assured me that he would continue to pray for me, and asked me to call him again in one hour. During that period I fell asleep, and when I woke up a couple of hours later, the pain was gone. I called the practitioner to let him know the good news about my progress. I was also calmer, and able to study the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, with more focus and tranquility.
I found great support from this passage: “When the illusion of sickness or sin tempts you, cling steadfastly to God and His idea. Allow nothing but His likeness to abide in your thought. Let neither fear nor doubt overshadow your clear sense and calm trust, that the recognition of life harmonious—as Life eternally is—can destroy any painful sense of, or belief in, that which Life is not. Let Christian Science, instead of corporeal sense, support your understanding of being, and this understanding will supplant error with Truth, replace mortality with immortality, and silence discord with harmony” (Science and Health, p. 495).
To me, those words by Mary Baker Eddy show how important it is to understand that God is Spirit and is perfect, and that man is His spiritual idea, whose immutable perfection can and should be demonstrated in the form of health and harmony at every moment. I knew that recognizing my unbreakable unity with divine perfection would bring me to the understanding that any painful sensation was not true or part of my spiritual identity, the only real identity I have.
By the end of the next day, these readings had brought me much peace, and the symptoms completely vanished.
I didn’t see a doctor to have the condition diagnosed. But relatives and friends, some of whom have medical backgrounds, told me that those symptoms could have indicated a serious condition. I am deeply grateful to God because in only three days I was totally free from the condition, without the use of any medication, special diet, or surgery. And those symptoms have not recurred!
Carla Carrubba
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
