Persistent prayer dissolves lump
They say, “When it rains, it pours.” This is how I felt a decade ago when a painful, hard lump appeared on my neck during a period of major upheaval in my life. Around the same time, the job I had landed only a few months earlier was terminated, and I had to move out of my apartment. A few years before that I had moved from one state to another in the United States, and it had required a lot of adjustments on my part.
When the lump first appeared, I thought it would soon go away. However, it didn’t recede or disappear but grew to the point where I could no longer turn my neck or lie on my back in bed. I wondered what was happening, and many times, I was in tears.
At the time, I was struggling to gain a clear sense of my individuality because of the many changes in my life. In the midst of losing a job and my apartment and dealing with this health challenge, I felt I was losing a part of my free, joyous nature. Over the following months, I called on different Christian Science practitioners for treatment. I was grateful for their prayers, which helped bring forward the eventual healing.
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