Article October 10, 2016 Issue

Prayer brings healing and spiritual growth

Rachel Tibery Espir

Originally written in Portuguese, this first appeared in the October 2016 Portuguese, Spanish, French, and German editions of The Herald of Christian Science.

Last year, as I was picking up my two-year-old son at school, his teacher called my attention to several places on his neck where there was a red rash. The rashes appeared to be spreading to other parts of his body as well.

I got a bit scared at that moment, because I remembered that I had had severe allergy outbreaks in childhood and as an adult. I didn’t know Christian Science back then and had relied on medicine for relief. Although I had been totally free from the condition for about ten years, I didn’t want my child to have the same experience.

So, within seconds I realized that I should not be impressed by the condition and should overcome the thoughts of fear. I mentally declared “the scientific statement of being” from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. This statement says, in part: “There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all” (p. 468).

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