Testimony of Healing June 13, 2016 Issue

Heart attack symptoms subdued and overcome

Jack Train

Sometime ago I was standing by our piano, working on a deliciously difficult jigsaw puzzle, a Christmas gift from my daughter. Suddenly I felt a great pain in my chest. While the pain was intense, the fear of passing on was greater.

We live on a busy street that is a major thoroughfare to the local hospital complex about a mile away. As a siren wailed from an ambulance nearby, I initially thought to myself, “I need to be in one of those right now!” But as a Christian Scientist who has experienced many significant healings by applying the truths of Christian Science—truths found in the Bible and explained in Mary Baker Eddy’s writings—this thought brought the immediate response: “Medical attention is not what I rely on, and it is not what is needed now.”

I began to think of spiritual truths that had brought deliverance in other instances when I was in need of healing. I knew that God, good, is all-powerful and the only Life there is. I claimed that my life was the perfect, harmonious reflection of the divine Life, which is always active. I reasoned that if I was a divine idea of the one and only ever-present God, I could not experience pain or a cessation of the right functioning of any part of my being. After all, Spirit was my only source of being, and, because of this fact, matter has no power.

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