Testimony of Healing November 7, 2016 Issue

Healed of flulike symptoms while traveling

Maryann McKay

Several years ago my job required me to fly periodically between South Africa and the United States. On one such trip, I flew from Washington, DC, and landed for a layover in London at dawn. Since my next flight to South Africa did not leave London until midnight, I took a tour of the city. When I returned to the airport several hours later, I was very ill with numerous flu-like symptoms.

I felt so ill that I didn’t feel I could pray for myself, nor did I feel strong enough even to find a telephone to call a Christian Science practitioner. Instead I found a quiet corner of the airport, stretched out on a bench, and tried to sleep. But after several hours of feeling increasingly miserable, I knew I had to either delay my flight and find a nearby hotel to rest for the night or begin to pray scientifically for healing, as I had learned to do in Christian Science.

I found a luggage cart to lean on and made my way to the food court to purchase a drink. As I sat there, I thought that I did not have hours to devote to this much-needed healing, but that I did not need hours to be healed—all I needed was one clear thought of spiritual truth. That could and would be sufficient.

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