I became interested in Christian Science about twenty years ago, and am grateful for the many blessings that have come to me during these years through its study and application.
One of my first healings was that of chronic headaches. I remember coming home from school one day, when I was teaching in a little mountain town, seemingly overcome with a headache. At first I was tempted to lie down, and then the thought came, "Why, a Christian Scientist would say there is something wrong with your thinking." I examined my thinking and found there self-will and irritation because the day had not worked out in the way I had planned. And then the "still small voice" whispered, "But God governs, and therefore you have no reason to be irritated." I was instantaneously healed, and have never suffered from such headaches since.
Another experience which has always meant a great deal to me was the healing of a sense of failure. Some years ago I found myself without a position, and took an examination to secure a position in a school in a large city. I did all the work I knew how to do in preparation for the examination, but received word that I had failed. This sent me into the depths of despair, self-pity, self-righteousness, and self-justification. When I was talking it over with a friend one day, she said, "You don't have to care what you made in the examination, for God's child has never failed." I determined to know this, and was beautifully lifted out of this sense of failure. Several months later, I was led to write to the Examination Board, asking them to reconsider my paper. As a result, they found they had made a mistake in marking my paper, omitting one entire question which was correctly answered, and which gave me a passing grade. I had not failed! It was my belief in a false report that had made me suffer.
