Not just one healing, but two!
For the better part of this past school year, I was often sick.
It wasn’t anything too serious, but discomfort in the form of congestion and related issues began to interfere with my everyday life. I had never experienced anything like this before and felt led to turn to prayer. My parents were aware of what I was going through, and although I didn’t ask them to pray for me, my mom is always very supportive of healing through prayer. So I knew she was supporting my progress during this time.
Though I had decided to pray, I wasn’t quite sure where to begin. I attend Christian Science Sunday School each week, so I began collecting notes I’d taken during our conversations in class as well as citations from the Bible and from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy that stood out to me. By the end of the school year, I had a full list of helpful ideas on my notes app.
I realized that rather than trying to fix a physical condition, I needed to correct whatever thought was behind it.
I prayed with the idea from the Bible that God is the only cause and creator, and that God, who is Spirit, creates and animates all that is real and good, including me.
One Bible verse that really resonated with me during this time comes at the end of a passage describing God’s goodness to His creation and says, “Whoever is wise will observe these things, And they will understand the lovingkindness of the Lord” (Psalms 107:43, New King James Version). To me, this means that if you look for the good, you can find it in every part of life because God is good and is Life itself. After reading this, I focused on observing the good things around me and expressing gratitude for them because I knew they were expressions of God’s love.
As I continued going to Sunday School and praying with these ideas, I began to see improvement. But I still wanted complete healing.
Then one day, I heard something on the Christian Science Daily Lift podcast that resonated with me. The general idea of the episode was that a physical issue points to something we haven’t addressed mentally, since everything we deal with is a thought that’s being expressed in an outward form. I realized that I had been focused only on a physical resolution, when what I really needed to pray about was a mistaken thought.
This insight invigorated me. I realized that, rather than trying to fix a physical condition, I needed to correct whatever thought was behind it, which I knew would happen as I learned more about God.
Soon after, I headed off to a camp for Christian Scientists. I was excited to go because, for me, camp is a great place to learn new ideas about God, and I knew my summer would be full of spiritual uplift and inspiration.
I realized I had been healed. All the discomfort was gone.
About a week and a half into camp, during a camp testimony meeting—an hour-long church meeting with opportunities to share healings—I was thinking about a testimony I might share. That was when I realized I had been healed: My sinuses were clear, and I wasn’t coughing anymore. All the discomfort was gone. I was so happy and grateful to God.
I also noticed that another long-standing issue had been resolved, too. For a couple of years leading up to this, I’d had eczema. As I mentally retraced my steps, I realized that when I’d first started praying about feeling ill, the discoloration and skin dryness from the eczema had disappeared. I hadn’t prayed about the eczema, but the spiritual uplift in my thoughts had met all my needs.
I learned a lot about myself and God through this experience, and I’m so grateful for both these healings.
