Swift healing of illness

Barbara J. Presler

I have had many experiences throughout my life where I felt God communicating His-Her healing truth to me. One such experience took place one summer when I was a college student, working as an intern at The Christian Science Publishing Society. This was a while ago, but the lessons have stuck with me.

I loved my internship—going to the office in the morning was usually a matter of joyfully sprinting there. However, one morning at work, I felt so ill as I sat at my desk that I told my supervisor I needed to leave the room.

I found a private spot in the building, leaned against a door, and began praying to see myself as the child of God, perfect and whole. That week in Christian Science Sunday School, we had discussed that man expresses God’s radiant qualities. It seemed incongruous to me that the offspring of divine Life, reflecting God, could have a sudden or acute—or any kind of—disease, and I denied that illness could be any part of my identity. Rather, my being is spiritual and pure. And reflecting and expressing God is my true and primary job.

I also thought about where I was interning—The Mother Church—and was led to pray about the idea of Church. Part of Mary Baker Eddy’s definition of Church is, “The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 583). I realized that Church is really a spiritual idea based in divine Mind, not matter; and it’s not limited to a physical building in Boston or my hometown or anywhere else. And I, as God’s child, dwell in divine Truth, Love, Principle, where I am forever safe, healthy, and secure.

After praying in this way for about a half hour, I went back to my desk, completely healed. What I learned through this healing were lifetime lessons; I gained a more spiritual sense of church, employment, and my identity. Further, this experience led me to realize that we can always be prayerfully knowing the truth of our relationship to God—not just when we seem to be facing a bad situation—because our identity as His perfect child is unchanging. And for the rest of the internship, I still sprinted to the office each morning, but I was prayerfully knowing my relationship to God as I ran along.

There isn’t a single place where God, ever-present divine Love, is not caring for His beloved creation. We all reflect God and can know the comforting light of Christ, Truth, that heals.

Barbara J. Presler
Laveen, Arizona, US

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