Testimony of Healing May 18, 2015 Issue

Walking ‘in the Spirit’

Anne Holway Higgins

Everyone smiled when I brought in the Boston cream pie I had made for dessert recently. After the first taste, however, the smiles quickly faded. Something was obviously wrong. In fact, I had used a wrong ingredient, resulting in a very bitter-tasting dessert!

This incident started me thinking about the kind of elements that we—all of us in our true identity as God’s image—are actually made up of: spiritual elements, such as strength, intelligence, and purity. I was reminded of an experience I’d had several years ago that proved that holding on to this correct, spiritual view of ourselves and others brings healing.

After a fall, I started walking with a limp, owing to a painful sensation in my hip and upper leg. I called a Christian Science practitioner to pray for me. The practitioner suggested that I keep in thought these right ideas: that I am created by God; that He loves, protects, and maintains me; and that I can “walk in the Spirit” (Galatians 5:16) and not accept the material view of myself as reality, because God, Spirit, is All. I also found comfort from Hymn No. 139 in the Christian Science Hymnal, the first verse of which is as follows: