Testimony of Healing December 29, 2025 Issue

Healing of abnormal growth

Robin Krauss

One morning several months ago, I felt a sizable hard lump under my armpit. I didn’t look at it, but it was painful when I touched it and when my shirt brushed against it. My first thought was to just ignore it, thinking that it might go away on its own. But right on the heels of that thought was a spiritual correction: This thought that it “might go away” was both suggesting that the condition was real and attributing power and intelligence to matter.

Christian Science doesn’t teach us to ignore problems but instead to address them right away through prayer, and that evening I began to do this. Prayer in Christian Science helps us gain a better understanding of our true identity as children of God, Spirit—as wholly spiritual, not in or of matter. I’ve learned that if there seems to be something wrong or malfunctioning in my body, it can always be traced back to the belief that I am mortal and can be sick or suffer.

As I was praying, this thought came to me: “Matter is nothing—no thing, mind, or power.” (This echoes a statement from page 330 of the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: “Evil is nothing, no thing, mind, nor power.”)

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