You Can Lean on God

I'm in the eighth grade. I'd like to tell of a wonderful healing I had a few weeks ago.

For about a year I'd had a corn on the ball of my foot. It hadn't bothered me, so I hadn't done anything about it until I suddenly realized that I didn't have to put up with something that didn't really belong to me.

I called a Christian Science practitioner, who absolutely filled me with God's truths, which drove the error from my thought and made me realize that it was my thinking that was guilty, not my foot.

Together we studied that week's Lesson-Sermon on Love. All the sections seemed to bring out the fact that there are no boundaries or limitations to Love. This impressed me because maybe I was not being as loving as I should be to a member of my family or a friend, especially as there was enough love to be shared abundantly by everybody.

Thinking about this, I looked up Ruth's story in the Bible and found this verse: "And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God." Ruth 1:16; She was so loving and considerate to her mother-in-law. The more she loved other people, the more she found better things unfolding for her. And Christ Jesus was very loving to others.

Then I did some more study on my own, using the Concordances to Mrs. Eddy's works. One passage I liked was, "Man is God's reflection, needing no cultivation, but ever beautiful and complete." Science and Health, p. 527; This meant to me that nothing that was not spiritual could even light on something which was a spiritual idea, beautiful and complete, and it certainly couldn't add to it.

Another passage I found was, "God requires perfection, but not until the battle between Spirit and flesh is fought and the victory won." p. 254 . This appealed to me because the battle is not between flesh and flesh, as I thought it was, but between God, good, and matter.

Realizing this, the battle was won and the healing complete, for the corn came out, and the space that was left filled in without even the slightest mark.

This has been my proof that only when you lean on God trusting in His power to conquer error will you be healed.

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