Christian healing is natural.  It is what we can expect as we go through life living, moving, and having our being in God (see Acts 17:28). Last year, however, I began to feel that maybe there were some things that couldn’t be healed. I knew this wasn’t consistent with the divine Science that Christ Jesus taught and demonstrated and that I had learned about in Christian Science class instruction.

One morning, I woke up with my shoulder feeling strange. I couldn’t move my arm normally. I couldn’t lift anything heavy or even raise my arm in certain directions. I did a little bit of praying, but I was on a trip and just hoped the problem would go away quickly. It didn’t go away quickly—or even slowly. I got really frustrated at what felt like a tenacious condition. I couldn’t join my niece in cartwheels, get dressed easily, or do my hair. 

I decided I would work on expressing grace and really check my thinking to see whether I was being impatient or was actually expecting healing. Each time the arm bothered me, I thought about the fact that this was not physical, but was a mental suggestion, a temptation to feel helpless and hurt. I could push back against temptation and fear with the authority of God’s truth of the ever-presence of harmony and health. I knew that Christian Science heals, having experienced wonderful healings when my thought had shifted from fear and fixation on pain to a fresh focus on God’s power and love. These healings had filled me with joy and gratitude. But now I didn’t seem able to focus my prayers or see progress.