I shall never cease to be grateful...

Mary Lichtenstein

I shall never cease to be grateful for my first healing, which came about in the following manner.

For many years I had suffered from stomach trouble and had had difficulty in retaining food of any kind. I was constantly under the doctor's care, and although I was up and around, I kept steadily growing worse. At last the day came when the doctor advised an immediate operation.

I was led to call a dear one and tell her of all my troubles. She was a student of Christian Science and said: "You do not have to be operated on. Try Christian Science."

Up to that time I always doubted that religion had any curative value, but I felt that I was at the end of my rope, since I was rapidly growing weaker. At my friend's recommendation I telephoned a practitioner, who was many miles away. With comforting words she quieted my fears. She said: "Food does not have intelligence, nor does it have a tongue to speak with. It cannot tell you what it is going to do."

The practitioner told me to dispose of all my medicines and assured me that God would take care of me. As I gathered up the medicines and threw them away, I turned to God and prayed that He would help me.

In shopping for the evening meal, I picked up a cucumber, a vegetable which I had been unable to eat without much suffering. As I looked at it, the words of the practitioner came to me, telling me that food has no intelligence and no tongue with which to talk.

Suddenly I realized what she meant, and I was so absorbed with this thought that the girl who was waiting on me asked what was wrong with the cucumber. I scarcely heard her, for my thought was so uplifted. My healing was instantaneous, and that evening, for the first time in many years, I ate a hearty meal, including the cucumber, and everything else before me.

For days I felt as though I were floating on air, and my friends noticed the remarkable change in me. Words can never express my gratitude for the wonderful truth that brought my healing.

Many years have gone by, and many lessons have had to be learned, but God, the Giver of all good, has sustained me through all trials. As I have grown in the truth, I have realized that such trials are only steppingstones to spiritual growth.

I am grateful to be a member of The Mother Church and a branch church and to have had class instruction. For Christ Jesus, our Way-shower, and for our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, who has shown us this beautiful way of Life, I am increasingly grateful. Only in striving to prove more and more of this wonderful truth can I fully express my gratitude.—(Mrs.) Mary Lichtenstein, Miami Beach, Florida.

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