Testimony of Healing February 10, 2020 Issue

Flu symptoms vanish

Judith Truesdell

About ten years ago I had what I think of as my favorite healing. I had recently taken a two-week class with a Christian Science teacher, so I was familiar with how to give myself Christian Science treatment.

For a couple of days I prayed for relief from fever and congestion. I tried to put into practice truths from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, such as, “Become conscious for a single moment that Life and intelligence are purely spiritual,—neither in nor of matter,—and the body will then utter no complaints” (p. 14) and “When we wake to the truth of being, all disease, pain, weakness, weariness, sorrow, sin, death, will be unknown, and the mortal dream will forever cease” (pp. 218–219).

There was another statement that seemed as if it ought to be effective if I could just apply it correctly: “The counter fact relative to any disease is required to cure it” (p. 233). I knew that suffering from congestion or fever was contrary to the fact that man is created in God’s image, as it says in Genesis 1. God is Spirit, so man must be spiritual, and he cannot be less than perfect, since “God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good” (verse 31).

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