Testimony of Healing December 4, 2017 Issue

Movement restored; pain and fear healed

Victoria Gaines

I am so grateful for a quick healing I experienced nearly a year ago. After waking up in the middle of the night, unable to move without a great deal of pain, I yelled for help but could not be heard—my husband had fallen asleep in the other room. I remembered my cellphone on the nightstand and was able to reach it to call my grandson, who just happened to be in the guest room next to me. He immediately woke up my husband, and they decided to call an ambulance, but I refused medical treatment.

Next, my grandson called his mother—my daughter—who lives in another state. My dear daughter voiced spiritual truths to me, and I started to be able to move some. Then she said, “Mom, you are not sick, and you are a good girl.” I broke out in laughter at her words, and this broke the mesmerism.

She was alluding to a little children’s biography of Mary Baker Eddy (Mary Baker Eddy: A Special Friend by Karin Sass) that I used to read to her when she was a child. In this sweet book, there is an account of Mrs. Eddy being called to heal a little boy who had become sick. This boy was often naughty and stubborn. While Mrs. Eddy prayed for him, he suddenly sat up and said, “I is tick,” and Mrs. Eddy replied, “You are not sick, and you are a good boy.” Soon he was healed—and his behavior improved, too.

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