Testimony of Healing March 18, 2019 Issue

Renewal and healing in my life

Jobie Townshend-Zellner

There have been many occasions when I’ve experienced healing from quiet moments of communion with God.

For instance, early last year I began having intermittent pain in one ear, especially when I was chewing. I was tempted to fear that my prayers would not be sufficient to meet this challenge, but I endeavored to listen more closely to God for divine Love’s healing ideas. Eventually I realized that for months I had been preoccupied with asking God for the human answers I felt I needed to guide my career, rather than truly listening to—and being guided by—the divine Mind, or one intelligence, that sees and blesses all. The willingness to yield to Mind’s ideas moment by moment involved giving up personal views of how my career should unfold and trusting God’s plan for me. When wanting to know and do God’s will became the motive of my prayers, the pain dissolved. And I was blessed at my job, too, as my manager offered me a more suitable way to advance through improving my performance.

Several years earlier, family and financial circumstances had forced me to move from the family home I had lived in for 16 years. During a summer yard sale, I saw many of my favorite belongings being sold and taken away. It was as if the life I had known was coming to an end. But at the same time, I felt a sense of renewal, again through quiet moments with God. During these moments I sought a deeper understanding of God as my ever-present guide and eternal Life, the provider of all the good that exists, from which we can never be separated.

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