Testimony of Healing May 18, 2020 Issue

Healing of severe flu during epidemic

Marc Schwartz

Some years ago, when the world was facing an epidemic of a particularly aggressive strain of flu, I found myself coming down with flu symptoms. To be honest, I didn’t think much about it. I just wanted to “sleep it off.” But a few days in, when the symptoms hadn’t improved in the slightest, it finally struck me that I should be addressing the problem as a Christian Scientist.

I began slowly by going through the motions of what I thought a Christian Scientist should be doing—reading that week’s Bible Lesson from the Christian Science Quarterly, repeating the Lord’s Prayer, listening to hymns, and calling a Christian Science practitioner for Christian Science treatment. However, things seemed to go from unpleasant to worse. After several days I still wasn’t able to hold any food down and was drinking only a little bit of water. I lost over thirty pounds that week. And now family members were trying to hide the concern on their faces when they saw me.

The practitioner spoke to me in terms that I’m not sure I understood well at the time, although I do now. He was trying to remind me that healing in Christian Science isn’t about thinking the right thoughts in an effort to heal a physical problem. Rather, healing comes about through acknowledging and wholeheartedly accepting that divine Truth is already true—namely, that my wholeness, health, and well-being are established and maintained by God, Spirit, not matter, and are therefore indestructible and intact.

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