Testimony of Healing May 1, 2017 Issue

Painful arm condition healed

Patricia Waterson

It is so comforting to know that the divine Principle of healing can be proved in our lives. Some years ago I had been struggling for several months with a painful condition in my arm. Though I’d prayed about this off and on, I think at first I went along with an underlying suggestion that the discomfort would just go away with time. But that was incorrect reasoning—time is not a healer.

The condition seemed to worsen, sometimes even keeping me awake at night. My anxiety about the arm increased, because my daughter was expecting her first child—my first grandchild—and naturally, I wanted to be able to help her out when this baby arrived. I was concerned that I would not be able to hold the baby.

I became more committed to praying diligently about this condition. I had experienced many healings before, and I knew that I could refuse to be impressed by whatever the body was trying to claim. I affirmed that I was the complete and perfect reflection of God, Spirit, and not a material being. I could not have anything that God had not given me. Even though the condition persisted, the understanding of “perfect God and perfect man,—as the basis of thought and demonstration” helped to remove a lot of fear (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 259).

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