This account, translated from the Dutch, was originally published in The Herald of Christian Science (Dutch Edition).
Some time ago I left my university life in Leiden to stay with my parents. It was the weekend before Easter, and my mother prepared a lovely Easter dinner. But later that evening I suddenly felt a severe pain in my stomach. My first reaction was to stay quietly seated and to realize who I am as a child of God. Because I did not succeed in turning my thoughts from the pain, I took The Christian Science Journal of April and started to read. It had been a long time since I had read the Journal, and gradually I realized what I had been missing. My thoughts were filled with a deep love for God, and I asked God earnestly to enable me to demonstrate the truth of what I had already learned of my wholeness and completeness as a child of God. The pain diminished somewhat, but as soon as I got up to go to the dressing room, it was there again.
For a minute I became desperate and full of fear until I realized that nothing in the world could keep the child of God from demonstrating Truth. Whatever our physical senses seem to tell us, Truth remains true. With this assurance I went on reading, and I held to the fact that Truth is always the victor. In the Journal that I was reading, an example was given of prayer that had seemed, at first, not to have had a direct effect. But, through the realization of God's presence, this same prayer brought a healing. So I, too, could have the confidence that my honest desire for spiritual understanding and healing would not remain unanswered.
