Severe abdominal pain cured

Particia E. Lister

For a number of months I had had severe abdominal pain. It kept me awake at night and made my daytime tasks very difficult. Only my husband knew of the problem, but even he did not know the severity of it.

Each day I quitely prayed and studied to understand God better. This psalm epitomizes my stand: "The Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life" (Ps. 42:8).

The problem completely cleared.

I wasn't afraid, but sometimes I caught myself trying to analyse what was wrong, or the suggestion would come that it would be better to eliminate various foods from my diet. At times like this I clung to ideas in Unity of Good by Mary Baker Eddy, which contains an article entitled "A Colloquy." This article became like a treasured friend to me, always ready to support me and guide me. So when food appeared to aggravate the problem, I tried to follow what Good says in this article when it declares, "Thou shalt not admit that error is something to know or be known, to eat or be eaten, to see or be seen, to feel or be felt" (p.22).

All the way along I was trying to expand my understanding of my present perfection as a loved idea of God. Perfection seemed to me, dur ing this experience, to be the theme uppermost in my thought. In No and Yes Mrs. Eddy says, "In this Science of being, man can no more relapse or collapse from perfection, than his divine Principle, or Father, can fall out of Himself into something below infinitude" (p.26). I declared my perfection and the perfection of every function of my real being. I knew I had no other capacity or function, as a reflection of divine, perfect consciousness, than to be aware of my perfection.

One day I came across an article in The Christian Science Journal that seemed to encapsulate all I was trying to grasp. It made me realise I also had to deny the error that said I was in a mortal body that was capable of controlling me and making my life uncomfortable for me.

I had always considered that my bowels functioned fairly normally, but a few days later I made frequent trips to the lavatory and the problem completely cleared.

In the days of pure joy and gratitude that followed, days of rejoicing in another evidence of the healing power of God, I was able to give copies of the Sentinel to two people I knew, and a copy of Science and Health to a total stranger who was in great need of help.
Particia E. Lister
Cramlington, Northumberland, England

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