Healing in Christian Science is wonderful, and the relief from sickness, grief, lack, and fear is very welcome indeed. Yet we sometimes take our healings for granted and forget to speak or write of them.
One of my early healings in Christian Science was that of an ulcerated tooth. "While at work one morning I felt quite ill from the intense pain. One of my fellow workers asked me what was the matter, and when I explained that a tooth was bothering me he offered me a certain tablet which he said would take away the pain. I thanked him and told him that I was not used to taking medicine and that I intended to have (Christian Science help. Being a pharmacist's son, he was quite skeptical about that mode of treatment, but courteously retrained from further urging me to take the tablet. That noon I called on a practitioner, who gave me a treatment while I was in his office, and I returned to work perfectly free from an pain or swelling. When my fellow worker saw me a little later he said, "Well, you look like a different person." And indeed I felt different, since all discomfort had left me.
At another time, while at work near a mezzanine floor where stationery was kept. I was struck very forcefully on the shoulder by a heavy package of stationery which had been thrown up to a young man on the mezzanine floor, who failed to catch it. I immediately declared the allness of God and the fact that "under divine Providence there can be no accidents, since there is no room for imperfection in perfection," as our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, writes in the textbook. Science and Health (p. 424).
