Testimony of Healing April 8, 2019 Issue

Healed of symptoms related to tick bite

Candy Sawyer

A few summers ago, after gardening in a wooded area, I discovered a mark on my body that indicated a tick bite. When I had found ticks on myself before, I had always removed them and prayed to not allow fear or images of a disease associated with tick bites to grow in my thoughts. There hadn’t been any issues.

However, this time there was a mark that was enlarging daily, and I began experiencing a variety of symptoms—some simply annoying, some frightening—over a period of weeks. During this time, two relatives mentioned Lyme disease and stories similar to what I had been going through. And shortly before this incident, a neighbor had invited me to go to a local talk about the disease; I’d politely declined. Concerns and fears about ticks seemed to be everywhere.

Early on, I called a Christian Science practitioner for prayerful support. She reminded me that God, divine Love, “made harmless the poisonous viper” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 243) that bit the Apostle Paul, and that Paul shook off the viper—a creature others accepted as having a fatal bite—as if it were nothing.

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