I could write a book about the healing experiences I have had...

Jodie Eva Cook

I could write a book about the healing experiences I have had through Christian Science. The testimony I would like to relate occurred in my recent years of studying at university.

At the completion of my drama degree, I had three months holidays before commencing a teaching degree the next year. After the intensity of my studies, I felt at a with all this free time and began to wonder what I would do on my holidays. I ran around, looking for things to do and finally joined a gymnasium. As my time at the gym increased, my sense of who I really was decreased. I started to look at myself in purely material terms.

Although many people commented on how "good" I was looking, I actually felt exhausted and trapped in this limited concept of what was supposed to be my identity. I was never still or at peace, and deep down I knew that all the running around in my thought really had to stop.

Chicken-pox healed in three days.

One night during this time, I woke with a fever. My mother, who is not a Christian Scientist, offered to take me to the hospital. At first I declined, but some time later, when the fever seemed quite serious, I consented, so as to alleviate her concern. All this time I was trying to think of the allness of God and of myself as God's idea. This was something I had not been acknowledging for a few months!

When the doctors saw me, they said I needed to take some painkillers. I took them in my hand and kept them there. I was diagnosed with chicken-pox and told I would have this condition for at least a week or two. I took none of the medication they gave me, and I returned home with my mother. I knew she was acting out of love and concern for me, but my one desire was to rely solely on God.

I rang my Christian Science Sunday School teacher, who pointed out that I had to please only God and that I could stand on my own two feet. That's when I decided to take a stand for what I knew in my heart, and from my previous experience, was right. I rang a practitioner who discussed the fact of my spiritual identity with me. I refused to accept any suggestion that I was incomplete, blemished, caught with fever, or ill. I prayed also to understand that matter had no power to itch, swell, and so forth, as God is the only voice, the only power. I held to the fact that I was the pure expression of divine Love, God.

As I began to gain a greater sense of my true identity, I decided to make some Christmas cards for friends and relatives. I was so caught up in this act of love that I totally forgot about my "condition." Within three days I was healed completely. My mother gratefully acknowledged the healing and has since supported my desire to rely on this ever-effective system of healing.

I am extremely thankful for the wonderful truths taught in Christian Science. God, divine Soul, truly is the only voice, the only Life, and we, as His perfect, beautiful children, cannot help but be spiritual and express this in our experience.

Jodie Eva Cook
Bli Bli, Queensland, Australia

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