I am very grateful for all the healings I have had in Christian Science

Sherry Elizabeth Owen with contributions from Shirley Humphrey Owen

I am very grateful for all the healings I have had in Christian Science. I have been in a Christian Science Sunday School since I was two years old and am now sixteen.

There years ago I came home from school feeling worse than I ever had before. After I told my mother about it, she told me to go to my room and pray. When I got up there, I turned to the chapter on Prayer in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, and found (p. 2), "Prayer cannot change the Science of being, but it tends to bring us into harmony with it."

It seemed as if I were getting worse and worse. I asked my mother to call a Christian Science practitioner. The practitioner said, "It's just like a mirage in a desert; you think it's there, but it really isn't at all. When the truth about a mirage is found out—that it isn't for real—we see that the desert doesn't have to recover from this false thought, for it has never been touched by it." This helped me see more clearly that I was in God's perfect protection and nothing could harm me, for I am His child.

A summer camp counselor, who is a very good friend, sent me a note with the words of Hymn No. 144 from the Christian Science Hymnal. The first verse goes like this:

In atmosphere of Love divine,
We live, and move, and breathe;
Though mortal eyes may see it not,
'Tis sense that would deceive.

I held to this considerably.

In the middle of one of those restless nights I got up, and instead of calling for my mom to come and read to me or talk with me as she had been doing for so many days and nights, I sat down at my desk, and this is what came to me to write:

While I was walking through a storm,
I couldn't find a path of any form.
I sat down to know that God was around, above, beneath.
Suddenly my path was clearer than any path I'd known.
I got up knowing I was safe in God's protection—
Throughout my pathway god leadeth me.

Shortly after that, I was well and free.

(Miss) Sherry Elizabeth Owen
Acton, Massachusetts

What a privilege it is to verify our daughter's healing! Since she became ill during a school year, my husband and I, thinking this might be considered a communicable disease, had our daughter examined by a medical doctor in order that we might comply with state laws in regard to reporting communicable diseases.

After viewing the X rays the doctor informed us that we had a very ill little girl, calling the disorder pneumonia. He recommended that she have intensive antibiotic therapy. Knowing how sincerely our daughter wished to rely solely on God for healing, we declined accepting any material means for healing and worked very closely with a devoted Christian Science practitioner, learning numerous lessons along the way. Many false responsibilities were dropped, and in their place a deeper trust in our Father-Mother God was seen and felt and demonstrated.

In the Glossary in Science and Health Mrs. Eddy defines "Japhet" (Noah's son) as "a type of spiritual peace, flowing from the understanding that God is the divine Principle of all existence, and that man is His idea, the child of His care" (p. 589).

(Mrs.) Shirley Humphrey Owen

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