I want to share a wonderful healing I had. Suddenly one morning I couldn’t hear out of one ear. Over more than fifty years, I have had many healings through my study and practice of Christian Science, and I knew that a medical examination would not be helpful. Instead, the demand was to deepen my spiritual understanding. So I endeavored to get a better grasp of the first part of the definition of ears in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: “Not organs of the so-called corporeal senses, but spiritual understanding” (p. 585). 

I knew that God, Spirit, is All-in-all, which includes His nature as all-hearing. And I knew that I, as God’s offspring, reflect that perfect, unobstructed hearing. Because I don’t exist separately from God, I can’t have my own separate hearing or other faculty, and Spirit’s faculties are not subject to decline, deterioration, or blockage. There was no physical faculty of hearing to fix. True hearing is listening to Christ, God’s message of love and truth to His creation, which speaks to us all through spiritual sense—the ability to hear and understand Him.  

I cherished the spiritual growth gained during this time of prayer. One beautiful idea I heard from God was, “You have never had a moment in matter.” To me, that meant I could have no limitation, no beginning, no material existence. I am, always have been, and always will be wholly spiritual, Godlike, complete.

At one point, I felt moisture in the ear. I wasn’t alarmed when I saw that it was blood, but I was so ready for this difficulty—this false claim about my identity—to be healed once and for all. I called a Christian Science practitioner, and she replied with this authoritative statement: “There is no mortal mind to argue for a material universe, no mortal mind to make you conscious of a mortal dream, and no mortal mind to argue against God.”

When I hung up the phone and prayed, this is what God said to me: “You, being purely spiritual, have never been in matter, have never suffered limitation or loss, have never been confused or defeated. Because you live in Spirit, you have dominion, peace, health, and wholeness. Because you are complete in Soul, you express joy and beauty—free from mortality and deficiency. You are able to be, see, and hear all of My glory—now!” Within a few days, I noticed that my hearing was fully restored. 

This healing happened over a year ago, and my hearing has remained perfect since. I am so grateful for the practitioners who prayed with me at different times during this challenge. I love Christian Science, as it proves the healing practicality of God’s unchanging law of Love.

Sue Ulrich Libbe
Perrysburg, Ohio, US