Testimony of Healing March 24, 2014 Issue

Child’s headache stopped

Sheryl Armstrong with contributions from Kelsey Armstrong

About three years ago, during summer break from school, my daughter, who was a preteen at the time, went along with me to do errands. At one point when we were in a parking lot, she became very uncomfortable and complained, through tears, that she had a pounding headache.

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, was once asked by a student how her remarkable healings took place. Mrs. Eddy replied, “It is Love that heals, only Love!” (Yvonne Caché von Fettweis and Robert Townsend Warneck, Mary Baker Eddy: Christian Healer, Amplified Edition, p. 101). I remember feeling the touch of that divine Love as I comforted my daughter. I closed my eyes in prayer and immediately a profound image filled my thinking. I thought of her as contentedly snuggled and asleep in divine Love’s hand. For just a moment, I was utterly consumed by this sense of God’s deep love for her. I could see so clearly that she was completely secure in His care and safe from any erroneous notion of pain or discord of any kind.

Christian Science teaches us that God is Spirit, without human hands or any other element of a corporeal form. So, of course I knew that the loving hand that appeared to me was simply the ever-present Christ showing me, unequivocally, the nearness of God’s care for my daughter—and indeed, for all His children, including me. During the short drive back home, I continued to hold on to that wonderful lingering sense of God’s pure love and my daughter’s inherent perfection as His beloved child.

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