About six years ago I was healed of a tumor, feared malignant, through reading the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. I read it on the recommendation of a friend, but did not understand at the time what had brought about my healing. It was not until more than two years afterward that I began to realize the nature of the power which was at work in my life.
At that time I was surrounded in my work by confusion, criticism, resentment, and exacting and conflicting demands were being made upon me. One day I caught a faint glimpse through the eyes of a co-worker, a student of Christian Science, of justice and order, and I began to question her. This glimpse made me long for more light, and I was led to seek a clearer understanding by visiting a practitioner. Although I feared and dreaded the encounter, expecting criticism and censure. I received from one who had never seen me before more kindness and understanding than I had ever known. She told me of Love and joy and mercy and peace, of divine Principle underlying and directing the action of the whole universe, of my own inheritance of perfection through the reflection of infinite Mind.
I realized at that moment that the struggle with a false sense of self had begun, and I could never escape from the obligation laid upon me of proving my sonship, of demonstrating perfection. It has been difficult only when I have allowed the clamor of the senses temporarily to shut out the voice of God.
