I am very grateful for the peace and harmony that have come to me through the study and application of Christian Science. Many years ago, when a beloved sister passed on, I was healed quickly of the sense of loss and grief. While I was still in the hospital where she had passed on, a Christian Science practitioner spoke the healing message to me and the cloud lifted. Fifteen years later the efficacy of this demonstration was proved again when my mother passed on and I was untouched by grief.
I have learned to think less possessively. Christian Science has taught me that the loved ones to whom I am related are not my children, my mother, my father, my husband, my brother, or my sister, but rather are they God's ideas with whom I am grateful to be associated. Did not Jesus say, as recorded in the twelfth chapter of Matthew, "Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?" Then he added, "Whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother."
I wish especially to express gratitude for a healing which I had not long ago. My daughter and I were preparing to take up residence in another city, where my husband had been employed for several months. With the exception of beds, our furniture was all packed and we were awaiting the movers. On Sunday morning after church some friends took me home in their car and, as I ran across the street, I slipped on the ice and fell. I struck the back of my head and spine and was unable to arise. My friends took me to my apartment and called a practitioner and another friend, who joined them. I lost consciousness, and except for a lucid moment now and then did not regain it until around nine o'clock that evening, when I learned that my husband had just arrived by plane in answer to an urgent call from our daughter. I also found that I was unable to move my hips and was able to stand only with assistance. However, the presence of the practitioner and my friends and the realization of the loving work being carried on for me made me so grateful for God's ever-loving care that when the suggestion of an X ray was made, I could reject it immediately.
