Article October 23, 2017 Issue

Feeling the reign of Spirit

Joan Bernard Bradley

The sweet words “God is Spirit” and “man is spiritual” are ones I know very well. These ideas were proved to be true when, through the prayers of a Christian Science practitioner, my young son was quickly healed of asthma, a condition that had troubled him for some time. The account of this healing was published as a testimony in The Christian Science Journal (see Joan Whiteside, “Although I grew up in a Christian home …,” September 1990).

Over the years though, there have been times when a difficulty has not yielded so quickly to prayer, and I’ve yearned to go beyond the familiarity of words to feel a tangible sense of God’s presence and power.

My thought became alive with Christly ideas.