I have been studying Christian Science for many years and have had healings of various health problems, including a fall from a high ladder (see Sentinel, April 1, 2019). Until recently, though, I had never been confronted with a challenge that seemed life-threatening. 

One evening about a year ago, after a period of strenuous activity, I began to experience aggressive pain of a kind typically associated with a heart attack. It was so severe that I could not sleep or engage in any normal daily activities. The thought came that this situation might be beyond my ability to handle through prayer in Christian Science, and that with life perhaps hanging in the balance, I should take the “safe” course and go to a hospital for treatment. 

Right behind that, though, came the thought that I had been prayerfully claiming for years that God is my Life and that God is omnipotent, able to negate completely the widespread assumption that physical health laws govern us. I saw that despite evidence to the contrary, the law of divine Love, God, was preserving my health and capability, now and forever. The choice, then, was either to stand firm on this truth or to give in to doubt and fear.