Throat issue healed

On my 18th birthday, I realized I had a lot to be thankful for—it was my senior year in high school, I was school president, football captain, and my girlfriend and I were candidates for the homecoming king and queen.

Later that evening, I was set to play in one of the football team’s most important games. As I sat down to my pre-game breakfast-themed dinner, I took a massive bite of my plate-sized buttermilk pancakes. But when I went to swallow, the food didn’t go smoothly down my throat. Not wanting to give it a second thought, I took another bite and a swig of water, but the pain was too much and my throat began to swell.

In that moment, all my joy and gratitude vanished and I began to seriously worry. Later that night, I managed to play in and complete the game, but I’d never played so little and spoken so few words in a three-hour period of time before. After the game, I was taken to a friend’s house where a surprise birthday party was being thrown for me, but I had a miserable time. 

When I’d had other physical issues in the past, prayer, based on the principles of Christian Science, had always helped me to find healing and make a complete recovery. So I decided to stop all my worrying and asked my mother to pray with me. Together, we affirmed what we knew about my real, spiritual identity—that God made me to be joyous, strong, intelligent, and healthy. I saw that those qualities couldn’t go away because of a condition with my throat. 

For the next few days, I stayed home from school and continued to pray along these lines. As my mom prayed with me, I felt confident that I would uncover just the right spiritual truths needed for me to better understand my relationship to God and find healing.

It became so clear to me that my identity, my substance, was spiritual and not dependent on a material body. As Mary Baker Eddy states, “… in Christian Science, Truth never mingles with error. Mind has no affinity with matter, and therefore Truth is able to cast out the ills of the flesh” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 191). I realized that because matter and Spirit are opposites, clearly only one of the two could be true, because they couldn’t exist together. Looking back on my past healings of things like a broken ankle, a broken hand, strained hip muscles, and dislocated fingers, I knew that I could prove again that my spiritual identity is my only true self. 

A few days had passed by the time I had this realization, and though the symptoms were still as apparent as they were on the night of my birthday, my thought was completely changed. I was happy and joyous again! I remember having an enhanced sense of the word faith, not a blind sense of the word—like you’re in the dark and you don’t know what’s going on—but rather faith in my understanding that the physical senses couldn’t affect my God-given
happiness. This gave new meaning to my faith that God created me healthy and whole.

I sat down to a bowl of soup and fearlessly brought a spoonful to my mouth. The soup went down smoothly. My throat returned to its normal and natural state. I was healed. I had a feast fit for a hungry teenage football player that day! 

I went back to school the next day, was crowned homecoming king later that week, and danced the night away. This was several years ago, and this condition has not reoccurred.

The difference between my meal on Friday night and the glorious meal of soup the following Tuesday afternoon was not based on the condition of my throat. It was due to the shift in my thought. 

Jake Lowe
Brighton, Massachusetts, US

I’m Jake’s mom and was his Christian Science practitioner on this case. Jake and I worked closely together to pray over those few days. During this time, although I was concerned that he wasn’t eating, I noticed that he was never weak or languishing. In those hours he spent praying, he expressed vehemence, fortitude, and was clear and lucid the whole time. 

I remember very clearly the day the healing took place. I received a call from a friend whose brother had perished in a fire. While listening to my friend, I kept a watchful ear out for Jake, who was in the other room praying, coughing, and resting. On the phone, my friend and I shared many ideas about God and our connection to Him. It was such an enlightening dialogue, like the clouds parting in my thinking and the sunshine of the Christ coming through. It was a marvellous insight into the very nature of the Christ; the spiritual sonship of God. By the end of that phone conversation, I recognized that both my friend’s brother and my dear son were both sons of God and reflecting divine Life and light.

When I got off the phone, Jake confidently came to me and told me he was hungry. I fixed him a bowl of “cock-a-leekie” soup (his favorite), and then he ate several more healthy portions. Moments later he was completely healed and fully back to his normal, joyful self.

Sabra Lowe
Kenmore, Washington, US

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