A cup cannot overflow until...

Alphia L. Engelbrekt

A cup cannot overflow until it has first been filled. My understanding of Christian Science has caused my cup to overflow with good, with gratitude, with joy, and with the constant evidence of God's tender care for His children, for all of which I say from a brimming heart, "Thank You, dear Father-Mother, God."

Words cannot truly express my gratitude for the fact that I have come to know God through this wonderful Science. Upon my first introduction to it, I realized that it is a religion of transcendent love and beauty.

Later, through reading the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, my mother was healed of a growth in her armpit; but it was not until I was close to utter despair over a personal relationship that I turned to Science. When I was healed of self-pity, the despair was replaced by a deep sense of joy and a great gratitude for a budding understanding of God.

I have been blessed by many physical healings, but I am so very grateful for the healing of several undesirable traits of character, such as taking offense, and of the social drinking and smoking habits.

Through the application of the truths I have learned in Christian Science, I have been healed of sinus trouble, and, more recently, of a tendency to have frequent severe colds. I gained my freedom from the colds through prayerful insistence on the truth set forth in a beloved hymn in the Christian Science Hymnal. It is No. 144, which tells us,

In atmosphere of Love divine,
We live, and move, and breathe.

However, I often had to seek the support of a practitioner when I was unable to meet a situation promptly. The practitioner pointed out firmly that although I was accepting each individual healing, I was not claiming my freedom from the belief in a tendency to have recurrent colds. She showed me that I must completely and finally reject any belief in such a weakness, that I must know that God's work is complete and remains permanent and cannot be reversed. I was obedient and claimed my freedom, and as a result, of course, the blessed healing came.

Another healing I should like to share I experienced during a Christian Science lecture. For some time prior to the lecture, I had been troubled at night by pain in my legs and feet. I would clear my thought by clinging to "the scientific statement of being" until I fell asleep. The statement is given on page 468 of Science and Health and begins, "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter." But the situation recurred nightly.

At the time of the lecture it seemed I had not made much progress toward a healing. That evening, about halfway through the lecture, I suddenly started to experience this annoying condition. It was so aggravated I became quite restless, moving and shifting about until I feared I was disturbing those around me. I believed it was error trying to deprive me of the truths I had come to hear. Therefore I did not make any attempt to handle the physical situation, but just silently insisted for a few moments that nothing could divert my receptive thought from the truth and that I would receive the blessing I had come to find.

The discomfort continued unabated throughout the rest of the lecture. However, my attention was not diverted, and I did receive a great, great blessing, because the minute I stood up when the lecture was concluded the pain had gone, never to return, and I was completely free.

My great desire is to learn more and more of Christian Science, Christ Jesus' Christianity, as divinely revealed to our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, and to become a clearer transparency for Truth to shine through.—(Miss) Alphia L. Engelbrekt, Nashville, Tennessee.

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