Woman conquers back trouble

Translated from German

Margret Ullrich

Ever since becoming acquainted with Christian Science, I have learned to trust in the fact that God governs my life and that God is the source of all good, all supply, health, life, and love.

Over the years, my appreciation for a spiritually oriented life has continually deepened, and along with it my gratitude for Christian Science. Through prayer, I have experienced many physical healings, one of which I'd like to relate here.

One day I had such severe pain in my back that I could neither sit, stand, nor lie down. Science and Health explains that inflammation is based on fear (see, for example, pages 414-415). It is fear that would prevent us from feeling God's love and blessing and from experiencing His salvation, or healing. Fear must be overcome—and it can be, through prayer. In my own situation, which lasted for three days, I felt at times incapable of praying very deeply, until I realized clearly that pain operates hypnotically. It would try to get us to deny spiritual being—even to deny God. I recognized that this mesmerism is a delusion.

Shortly before this happened, I had perceived from studying the Bible Lesson (found in the Christian Science Quarterly) that evil has no cause or existence, no Principle or permanence. And pain is something evil, so it cannot be real or permanent. But until I grasped this, I felt all alone, struggling with God; I believed that no one could understand me or help me. Pain is hypnotic. By contrast, "God's being is infinity, freedom, harmony, and boundless bliss," as it says in Science and Health (p. 481). God frees the imprisoned thought.

The pain had no more power over me, and I was free.

This contrast, of the hypnotic nature of pain on the one side and God's freedom on the other, kept getting clearer to me as I pondered it. When I woke on the morning of the fourth day, the pain had no more power over me, and I was free. I was filled with deep gratitude, with awe, with glory and praise for God, who has such power, for the Mind that has such effects upon our lives.

I experienced this healing a number of years ago, and the difficulty has never recurred.

Margret Ullrich
Berlin, Germany

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