Testimony of Healing November 25, 2019 Issue

Burns quickly healed

Virginia Gathings

How wonderful it is to know that even the smallest incident of restored harmony points to the authority of the universal law of God’s goodness. A few years ago, I was heating the tip of a glass rod with a torch in order to create beads out of molten glass. I had discovered the intriguing qualities of glass in a glass fusing workshop, and it wasn’t long before I had my own tools for both this craft and glass bead-making. As I worked this particular evening, I happened to grab the hot end of a rod I had just used and dropped it from the sudden pain.

I had been intent on the project, not on my body, which made it easier for me to turn my thought away from the pain to what Christian Science had taught me about the nature of man as the offspring of God, Spirit. I affirmed that man is the expression of God’s being and can have only the qualities originating in Him—harmony, orderliness, intelligence, discipline, creativity. And these qualities have nothing to do with a material body.

I declared that I was the spiritual image of God, as we are told in the first chapter of the Bible, and as such could not be touched or injured by an accident. After that quiet moment of prayer, I felt no pain at all. I didn’t look at my hand, and the mishap quickly became a nonevent.

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