Tenacious trouble with shoulder gone

Christian healing is natural.  It is what we can expect as we go through life living, moving, and having our being in God (see Acts 17:28). Last year, however, I began to feel that maybe there were some things that couldn’t be healed. I knew this wasn’t consistent with the divine Science that Christ Jesus taught and demonstrated and that I had learned about in Christian Science class instruction.

One morning, I woke up with my shoulder feeling strange. I couldn’t move my arm normally. I couldn’t lift anything heavy or even raise my arm in certain directions. I did a little bit of praying, but I was on a trip and just hoped the problem would go away quickly. It didn’t go away quickly—or even slowly. I got really frustrated at what felt like a tenacious condition. I couldn’t join my niece in cartwheels, get dressed easily, or do my hair. 

I decided I would work on expressing grace and really check my thinking to see whether I was being impatient or was actually expecting healing. Each time the arm bothered me, I thought about the fact that this was not physical, but was a mental suggestion, a temptation to feel helpless and hurt. I could push back against temptation and fear with the authority of God’s truth of the ever-presence of harmony and health. I knew that Christian Science heals, having experienced wonderful healings when my thought had shifted from fear and fixation on pain to a fresh focus on God’s power and love. These healings had filled me with joy and gratitude. But now I didn’t seem able to focus my prayers or see progress.