In 2022 I went on a Bible study tour in Israel and Jordan. About ten days in, I became very ill. As I’ve found it helpful to do in these kinds of situations, I turned wholeheartedly to God. I prayed to know that as God’s child I was safe and cared for and that God’s love was right there with me.

A friend on the trip prayed with me, helped with some practical needs, and sang hymns to me with another friend, which was so helpful. But that night I woke up in the middle of the night, still struggling. I reached out to a Christian Science practitioner back home for prayerful treatment. She reminded me of everyone’s inherent perfection as the reflection of God—that we are not mortal and subject to illness but entirely spiritual, created in God’s image and likeness, as the Bible says.

Jesus healed by seeing and knowing what God sees and knows—the flawless, spiritual man and woman of God’s creating. And Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy tells us that such healing is not limited to a particular time or place: “It is not well to imagine that Jesus demonstrated the divine power to heal only for a select number or for a limited period of time, since to all mankind and in every hour, divine Love supplies all good” (p. 494).