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Sudden pain and restricted movement healed
I’m truly grateful for the privilege of studying Christian Science and for the many blessings it has brought to my life.
Recently, while helping someone with landscape work, I felt a bite or prick on one of my fingers, and I drew back in pain. There was no obvious injury or apparent cause, and I kept working, but the pain lasted for a few minutes. A couple of hours later when the work was finished and I got in my car to leave, I noticed a numbness and swelling in the same finger. Still not giving it much thought, I went about my day.
When I awoke the next morning, I immediately felt tightness and restricted movement in one of my arms and legs as well as significant pain in all my joints. My finger was still badly swollen. I had a busy day planned, which involved a lot of standing and walking, and the symptoms continued throughout the day. While I had prayed early on about removing fear and recognizing all causation as in God, good, by evening I knew I needed to step up the prayerful work for myself, and I called a Christian Science practitioner for help.
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February 8, 2016 issue
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Letters
Leebo, JC, Barbara Presler, Ron and Anne Hughes, Truth Johnston
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Prayer: Relevant in Bible times and today
Judy Olson
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Experiencing spiritual peace, even during a storm
Kathy Chicoine
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Safety and travel: How we prayed
Jan K. Keeler
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‘The truth I had never heard before’
Josiah Chiwakira
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Safe in the storm
Lydia Pierce
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Sudden pain and restricted movement healed
Lenore Upp
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Illness before trip healed
Nancy Sanders
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Stolen purse recovered
Martha Gauger
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Prayer reverses predictions of difficult birth
Vincent Ebulu with contributions from Tabitha Nakirya
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‘Congratulations! No defects found.’
Beverly Peake
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Old neighbors. Can they be friends?
John Yemma
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When neighbors become true friends
Kevin Graunke
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Completeness and progress
Barbara Vining