Testimony of Healing May 8, 2017 Issue

‘With lovingkindness have I drawn thee’

Joanne Battista

I would like to share the following healing that I recall from a number of years ago. It came to me because the following verse was in a recent Christian Science Bible Lesson: “The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee” (Jeremiah 31:3). I can never read this verse without being grateful all over again for a wonderful healing that resulted from a new, spiritual understanding of those words.

I had fallen down a good portion of the flight of stairs in my home and remained on the floor praying for peace until I could get up and get into my lounge chair. I spent a long time in that chair with what felt like a badly injured ankle. The ankle was swollen, and I could not walk on it.

That verse from Jeremiah was playing over and over in my thinking. I wondered what “drawn” meant, and I prayed to understand it better. Did it mean “sketched”? Or did it mean “attracted to,” “pulled toward”? I decided it meant both. That was such a happy thought and changed the fear of pain and trouble into a clear sense of being held completely in God’s arms, the ultimate and only “attraction.” Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy states, “There is but one real attraction, that of Spirit” (p. 102).

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