When I give gratitude for all the healings I’ve had that have proven to me the power of God, there is one that stands out. When I was a teenager, one day I walked into the living room, where my dad was seated. All of a sudden, I realized that he was having a heart attack. 

I was home alone with him, and with everything in me I turned to God and asked what I needed to know. This is where I am so grateful for the weekly Bible Lesson from the Christian Science Quarterly. The subject that week was “Spirit.” I don’t recall exactly what came to me from that Lesson, but it gave me such a glorious sense of peace that I lost all fear.

The Christian Science textbook says: “The physical effects of fear illustrate its illusion. Gazing at a chained lion, crouched for a spring, should not terrify a man. The body is affected only with the belief of disease produced by a so-called mind ignorant of the truth which chains disease. Nothing but the power of Truth can prevent the fear of error, and prove man’s dominion over error” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 380). When I first saw my dad, it was a fearful sight. But the power of Truth, God, broke the fear, proving that by turning to God we can experience dominion over even an awful situation.