Testimony of Healing August 25, 2003 Issue

Healing of fear brings physical healing

Wendy Rankin

I was in the shower one evening and felt a lump on the side of my breast. My first reaction was to become paralyzed with fear. I didn't know what to do. I had seen so many commercials and warnings about breast cancer that I was overwhelmed with thoughts about how serious this condition could be. I thought maybe I should go to a doctor and get some tests. But deep down, I also knew that I would in the end be relying totally on prayer. I had been a Christian Scientist my whole life and had had many healings, both physical and otherwise, by relying only on prayer.

The next morning I called a Christian Science practitioner to ask for support in prayer. He immediately quelled my initial fear of what I had been hearing so much in the news as to how drastic and serious something like this could be.

I decided to stay very quiet about my situation. Usually I would have talked with my mom or a friend about something like this, but now I wanted to keep my treatment just between God and me, along with the practitioner's support in prayer. Although I didn't have this lump medically diagnosed, my fear was so great that every day I would become convinced that I was going to die. I would go back and forth from praying to suddenly contemplating my own death. I had never been so scared in my life.

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