Prayer heals pain and numbness

Robert Snyder

After working on several maintenance projects at home and at my church that involved a lot of bending over and rather strenuous work, my lower back was sore. As it did not bother me very much, I dismissed it as not worth praying about. But after several days the soreness worsened, and one morning I found it difficult to rise up out of bed. I felt a sharp pain in my lower back when I moved around. I also noticed some numbness in my right leg. I was concerned and quite fearful.

I immediately began to declare my oneness with the Father and to know that any good, right activity or work was serving my Father-Mother God and that I could not suffer or be in any discomfort as a result of this right activity.

I read that week's Bible Lesson outlined in the Christian Science Quarterly, and I ran across this passage from Science and Health: "Mind is the source of all movement, and there is no inertia to retard or check its perpetual and harmonious action. Mind is the same Life, Love, and wisdom 'yesterday, and to-day, and forever.' Matter and its effects—sin sickness, and death—are states of mortal mind which act, react, and then come to a stop. They are not facts of Mind. They are not ideas, but illusions. Principle is absolute. It admits of no error, but rests upon understanding" (p. 283).

I read and reread the first sentence of this paragraph several times and thought more deeply about it. If Mind, God, is the source of all movement and action, and I was made in His image and likeness as whole, perfect, and complete, then it follows that I should be able to have no ill effects. Nothing can retard or prevent me from expressing God and His goodness—His work and activity.

After about a half-hour of thinking, praying, and affirming along these lines, I noticed a considerable lessening of pain, and the numbness in my right leg was gone. There lingered a slight soreness in my back for a few hours, but I was so grateful that the healing was taking place.

A family member needed some help relocating some furniture in the house, and I was able to help without any ill effects. It was then that I realized I had been completely healed.

Robert Snyder
Greenbelt, Maryland

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