Testimony of Healing April 27, 2020 Issue

No more flu symptoms

Carol Vaughan

One morning I awoke with flu symptoms and was unable to study the weekly Christian Science Bible Lesson (found in the Christian Science Quarterly) as I usually do each morning. I stayed in bed and thought about the Christian Science lecture I had attended the previous day. It included a story about a little girl who asked how to pray for a llama that had a disturbing cough.

The lecturer, who is a Christian Science practitioner and teacher, told the girl about the first chapter of Genesis, which describes how God created everything and made it good. She then instructed the girl to see the llama as beautiful and perfect, as he was created by God. After a brief time, the child noticed that the llama was no longer coughing.

I thought about what the young girl was able to recognize so quickly. Rather than fearfully trying to determine the origin of the cough, how long it would last, or what to do if the cough got worse, the child saw only what was true about the llama—that he was already whole and good. Nothing needed to be added to him, and nothing needed to be taken away. He was already perfect.

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