Testimony of Healing January 5, 2026 Issue

Full use of immobilized arm regained

Kathie Ann Walter

In April 2025, I awoke to find that, for no apparent reason, my right arm ached with every movement. Nothing unusual had occurred during the night or the day before that might have caused this discomfort, yet I wasn’t able to use the arm at all—to eat, cook, shower, dress, drive, etc. Throughout the days that followed, I was grateful to be able to do most necessary things with my other hand, although it was awkward and took a lot longer.

I knew from my study of Christian Science that I could pray about this by reasoning from a spiritual basis. This meant that I needed to stop accepting as legitimate what the physical senses were reporting and start acknowledging what was spiritual and therefore true—what Spirit, God, was knowing about me as His creation. I knew that pain and immobility do not come from God, because He is entirely good. The Bible says that man is created in His image (see Genesis 1:27), so since we reflect God, we can experience only good. God’s loving provision for His creation includes only freedom and harmony, not restriction and pain.

As I prayed this way, I recalled a favorite quote from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: “If the medium of hearing is wholly spiritual, it is normal and indestructible” (p. 214). Although this statement specifically refers to hearing, I’ve always enjoyed adapting it to a variety of situations. In this instance, I replaced the word hearing with movement. I reasoned that if the source of my movement was Spirit, God, then it was “wholly spiritual” and “normal” (harmonious, painless, and unrestricted), and since it was also “indestructible,” it had to be permanently so. Because God is all-acting and I reflect God, my right activity could never be curtailed in any way.