For many years I have relied upon God for healing, protection, supply, and happiness. As a child I was subject to all the so-called children's diseases, and I suffered broken bones and other mishaps. It was not until I was in my early twenties and began to study Christian Science that I learned that man is God's image and likeness. I realized that I did not need to continue to suffer or be afraid of sin, disease, and death, because they are not God-created and therefore are unreal.
I read on page 120 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, "Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind; nor can the material senses bear reliable testimony on the subject of health."
In the process of proving this statement two questions and answers on the same page were a great help to me: "Is a man sick if the material senses indicate that he is in good health? No! for matter can make no conditions for man. And is he well if the senses say he is sick? Yes, he is well in Science in which health is normal and disease is abnormal." So I saw that what the material senses manifested, whether sickness or health, could not be relied upon.
As a result of this new concept of health, a sense of well-being began to manifest itself in my experience, and I found that it was necessary to watch my thinking rather than the body in overcoming physical discordant conditions. My first healing was the over-coming of chronic constipation, for which I had taken many kinds of medicine. This healing came about while I was reading Science and Health for the first time. My faith in medicine disappeared, and I have never resorted to its use since then.
