Thanks to Christian Science, I have known God as my Physician, Teacher, guide, and friend throughout my life. Adhering to the rules of Science, our family has experienced healings of broken bones, gallstones, pneumonia, ear infections, accident-related problems, so-called childhood diseases (including a severe case of measles), kidney infection, a condition that resulted in immobility, and numerous proofs of protection.

Science was very much a shield and staying power when my husband passed on when our daughter was a teenager. It gave us the strength and courage to go forward.

Facing me was an almost overwhelming sense of loss. I also needed to gain a deeper, more unlimited sense of security, income, and confidence that I could realize a complete sense of home and overcome the fear of the unfamiliar world of business. All this was accomplished with the supportive prayers of a Christian Science practitioner who helped us to see that our good was not gone; that God's law is always operating and is in control of our lives; that our happiness and well-being did not depend on person, place, or things; that God was our provider as He always had been.

I was healed of severe hemorrhaging at the same time I was healed of grief, through understanding that divine Love is my life—not blood, heart, nor any material organ. Communion with God helped me see that Spirit's creation is always in divine Mind and cannot be separated from Love or Love's sustenance. As God's ideas, we are living and moving in the allness and completeness of Spirit, not matter. A passage I turned to during this time of adjustments and healing is from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: "The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible."

With a trusting heart I also accepted this promise of Christ Jesus: "For with God nothing shall be impossible," and I took the steps I saw to take as they were revealed through prayer.

Demonstrating the fact that man's intelligence is a reflection of God, divine Mind, seemed especially difficult because of a long-standing feeling of personal inadequacy. However, through persistent effort in identifying myself as God's loved child—spiritual and complete, the reflection of intelligence, God—and not truly dependent on a material brain, I was able to overcome this feeling. I saw that I reflected all that my Father is and has, as each sunbeam reflects the full radiance of its source, the sun.

As I held to my oneness with my Maker, what appeared to be insurmountable obstacles became steppingstones. Infinite Mind guided me through completing high school and achieving a college education, which culminated in bringing me a job opportunity that, in times past, would have been far above my expectations. The credit for these accomplishments belongs to God.

Another quite different proof of God's care came when I received a call in the middle of the night from my daughter. She gave no inkling of the problem. On the way to her in the car I struggled to keep my thought on God's many promises of good from the Bible, and declared that man is God's own image, His idea, not a mortal; that nothing could interrupt the harmony of man, because divine Mind is always in control.

When I arrived, my daughter was in bed with a terrified look on her face. She was having hallucinations from a drug a friend had slipped into her glass before leaving earlier that evening. (My daughter had been depressed, and the friend had told her she had something that would help. But my daughter had not been aware that that "something" had been put into her glass!) I spoke reassuring truths to her a few minutes and then prayed for guidance. I was then impelled to address the error audibly like this: "I refuse to believe this! Drugs have no power, for God is not only the supreme power, He is the only power. You cannot do anything to God's child, who is spiritual. You can't touch Spirit!" The color immediately came back into my daughter's face. She looked at me in amazement and said, "I'm all right. It's gone!" That was the end of the trouble. Together we thanked God for showing us the unreality of evil.

Many years ago while participating in a calisthenics class, I fell. As I fell I remember knowing "I can't fall out of God's presence." I didn't feel hurt, so I continued on for about forty-five minutes until my wrist began to throb and swell. Since it appeared broken and I couldn't use the hand, at my request my daughter drove me to a Christian Science facility. There my arm was placed in a cradle splint to hold it firm.

My daughter and I both had been sharing aloud statements of truth. One was from Science and Health: "Accidents are unknown to God, or immortal Mind, and we must leave the mortal basis of belief and unite with the one Mind, in order to change the notion of chance to the proper sense of God's unerring direction and thus bring out harmony." And we also held to the truths of "the scientific statement of being" from the same book. Thinking about such statements kept me from being tempted to believe the physical evidence as true of me as God's image.

Although I did not sleep that night, I felt sustained by God's presence and power. When I returned to work with my arm in a sling and a co-worker learned that the bone had not been set, she became concerned. But I wasn't afraid. I am so grateful for the thorough help of a Christian Science practitioner I called for special support through prayer. I was quickly freed from pain. In about ten days I discarded the cradle and sling, and in a little over two weeks I was using the hand normally.

Now, over fifteen years later, that wrist is still as strong as the other. Words can't express my gratitude for Christian Science.

Kathryn Baker
Tempe, Arizona

I am the daughter referred to in the hallucination experience. When my mother arrived, I was in a very drugged state. I remember her speaking to me a few moments, and then she denied aloud that a drug could have any power over me because I was spiritual—God's child. That was it. I was instantly healed and able to function normally once again.

Judi Wyllie
Mesa, Arizona