Healing of eye injury

Vincent Ebulu

While I was removing my pig from a wooden pigsty last summer, a sharp stick smacked my right eye. As I hopped around in extreme pain, I knew that this was a time for a radical prayer. I reasoned that I could decide to go along with the thought that I was suffering from an accident, or with what I knew to be true—that God’s law of harmony governs me (and everyone) every minute of the day.

I knew that I was God’s child. God loves me and cares for me, and I cannot be outside His protecting presence. I sat down and covered the eye with a wet cloth and took a few more minutes to pray for myself. I had noticed that my eye was bloody and swelling, but I remembered what I’d learned from the book Science and Health with Key to Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy about the importance of not being impressed or distracted by what the body is telling us and to listen to what God, divine Truth, is communicating to us about our spiritual origin and perfection.

As I was praying, I remembered this one statement from Science and Health: “Stick to the truth of being in contradistinction to the error that life, substance, or intelligence can be in matter. Plead with an honest conviction of truth and a clear perception of the unchanging, unerring, and certain effect of divine Science. Then, if your fidelity is half equal to the truth of your plea, you will heal the sick” (p. 418).

Covering my eye had made it easier for me to “stick to the truth of being” that I am spiritual, made in God’s image and likeness. Also, that since divine Mind is the only intelligence, matter or nerves have no reality or intelligence to tell me that I am hurt or in pain.

I pleaded with an honest conviction of this truth, affirming it. I was encouraged from reading Science and Health to know that if my fidelity to truth was only “half equal” to the truth of my plea, it would be enough to outweigh the error that I had ever been separated from God and vulnerable to injury.

I felt that praying from this Christianly scientific basis opened up my spiritual discernment to the fact that we never pray to improve matter but to better understand the nature of God and man. As I grew in this understanding, I gained a sense of freedom from the general mortal belief that sight is material and needs material organs or aids to function. I saw that sight and all functions of the body are governed by Soul, or God, and are spiritual, harmonious, and eternal.

Following this thought, I knew that I had been healed. The discoloration and swelling in my eye cleared away, the pain stopped, and I could see very well. This all happened within three days. I am most grateful for this healing, and more so for Mrs. Eddy, who taught us the fundamentals of Christian Science treatment.

Vincent Ebulu
Kampala, Jinja, Uganda

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