Testimony of Healing June 3, 2019 Issue

Foot and chest pains gone

Angela Bhagwan

Some months ago, I was experiencing pains in my chest, as well as on the bottom of one of my feet. My prayers about this were persistent but without conviction. I was trying to pray the pain away rather than really dig into spiritual truths.

I called a Christian Science practitioner for treatment through prayer. The practitioner reminded me that I am never separated from divine Love and that my real body is spiritual, already perfect, harmonious, and intact. We prayed with the idea of a smoothly flowing “channel of thought” (part of the spiritual definition of river given by Mary Baker Eddy on page 593 of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures)—which meant to me that God’s love can remove from our thought any apparent obstruction to healing.

I expected complete and permanent healing, recognizing that divine Love is the true healer. Comforted by this, I fell asleep and then was awakened by my son for assistance with a school assignment. I was in alarming discomfort, which I did not make known to my family, so I tried to call the practitioner back. The phone went unanswered. However, I said to myself that it is God who heals, not a person, and that the work was already done: God’s creation is always pure and whole. I just needed to see that more clearly.

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