I have received so many blessings...

Harry P. Grayson

I have received so many blessings from the study and application of Christian Science since a testimony of mine appeared in the Sentinel some years ago that I am again impelled to express my gratitude to God.

One Sunday noon my wife and I stood in the kitchen of our home reviewing the thoughts that had come to us as we sat in church listening to the reading of the Lesson-Sermon, the subject of which was "God the Preserver of Man," and which we had studied by means of the Quarterly during the previous week. We discussed one of the definitions given in a dictionary of the verb "preserve," which is, "to keep from injury or destruction; defend from evil; protect; save." We realized that the preservation of man is not the result of so-called luck, is not dependent upon mere chance, but is the prerogative of God, divine Love, man's creator.

As we were contemplating this, we heard a loud crash in the adjoining dining room. Investigating, we found that a large section of the ceiling, about which we had previously notified the landlord, had collapsed and fallen directly where my wife would have been sitting had not our discussion delayed the preparation and serving of the noonday meal.

Through my own efforts, together with those of my wife, a dedicated student of Science, I have experienced an almost instantaneous healing of a severe pain in the lower right side of my body. So complete and quick was the healing that within a matter of hours I was enabled to drive to and from an outdoor Christian Science service, a total distance of approximately two hundred miles.

Like the man mentioned in John (5:5), who "had an infirmity thirty and eight years" and was healed by the Christ, Truth, I was healed after a similarly lengthy period of an unsightly growth over one eye. Other than to strive for an understanding of the ever-presence and omnipotence of the healing Truth and to learn what real, spiritual growth is, I did no other specific work in this instance. The growth disappeared; just when, I do not know.

I have also been healed of kidney trouble. Like the other healings, this one has been permanent.

I strive each day to be more grateful to God, not only for the blessings which have already been showered upon me, but for those which I know are still in store for me.—Harry P. Grayson, Bloomfield, Connecticut.

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