A lifetime of reliance on God

Cynthia S. Prime

As a teen, I found myself with a painfully cramped and immovable leg while swimming in a pool. After being assisted home, I prayed with the ninety-first Psalm, and strove to really understand those verses. After a very short time I was able to discern that God's angels had charge over me! All trace of the difficulty left, and I went right back to the pool.

Enough can't be said for God's protecting, loving care for His children.

In high school and college, seemingly impossible academic problems were surmounted when I abandoned personal outlining and fears and knew God as the source of intelligence and myself as the immediate reflection of this intelligence.

In marriage and family needs, Christian Science has been invaluable. When I was expecting our first child, I was actively praying, along with having treatment from a Christian Science practitioner, to free myself from any misconceptions about human brith. I was daily endeavoring to see spiritually that conception could only be God's unfoldment of His nature. At one point the doctor told me that the baby's position was such that I might expect a Caesarean section. I left her office prayerfully certain that no mortal opinion could interfere with God's plan. I studied the opening paragraph of the Preface of Science and Health, where it speaks of "the Bethlehem babe, the human herald of Christ, Truth, who would make plain to benighted understanding the way of salvation ...." And I prayed to be like the wise men, who "were led to behold and to follow this daystar of divine Science, lighting the way to eternal harmony" (p. vii). During the next visit I was told that all was well, the baby was in the proper position and ready to be delivered.

Our family has witnessed healings of various illnesses with our three children. One morning my three-year-old girl woke with a severe rash, head to toe, accompanied by a fever. Although the picture seemed quite frightening, I prayed to see her spiritual innocence. After I spoke with a Christian Science practitioner and requested prayerful treatment, my fear for my daughter was quickly overcome. My mom, also a lifelong Christian Scientist, cared for her and her brother while I went to work. Throughout the day I held firmly to the fact that my daughter was completely safe in God's love for her. When I arrived home, all signs of the illness were gone, and she was spotless. My mom said that she had played happily all day.

When my son was three, he got a finger caught in a door. At first he was crying very hard, but I was able to talk to him about what he had learned that week in Sunday School of the three Hebrews cast into the furnace and protected by God (see Dan., chap. 3). I emphasized the fact that not a hair on their heads had been singed. My son was so receptive to this truth that I was able to bandage the finger, which, though it still appeared ugly, was by then without pain. I continued to pray to affirm the truth that we had shared together. The next day the bandage fell off while he was playing. He ran to show me that there was not a trace of injury. Enough can't be said for God's protecting, loving care for His children.

Even when healing have seemed delayed, there has been great spiritual growth, renewal, and reward. Always God's "still small voice" has been there, encouraging me to break the lie with spiritual insistence. God has never failed me when I have recognized this fact.

Cynthia S. Prime
Greenwich, New York

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