Christian Science has made demonstrable the prophet Isaiah's words(40:31), "They shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." I am grateful indeed for God's love and protection, which guide us through our everyday affairs, and for the vitalizing, spiritual force which makes it possible to run the daily race without finding it wearisome or to walk the daily way without yielding to a sense of burden. It is an occasion for special gratitude, however, that when confronted with problems of a more urgent nature, we are enabled through Christian Science to "mount up with wings as eagles" and find that loftier state of thought which instantaneously heals.
It is for such a healing that I wish to express gratitude. Some time ago while at work I was seized very suddenly with a crippling condition of the hip. It came without warning and almost incapacitated me. A friend helped me home, and because even my thoughts were crippled to the point of my not being able to do prayerful work, a practitioner was called. Hardly had the receiver gone back in place when a light flooded my consciousness, relieving me at once of the state of apathy which had enshrouded my thinking. I picked up the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, and began to read earnestly and with inspiration. These words struck me (p. 227), "The illusion of material sense, not divine law, has bound you, entangled your free limbs, crippled your capacities, enfeebled your body, and defaced the tablet of your being." As I pondered them I began to recall the prevalent talk about poor conditions in my line of work and became aware of my concept of a crippled business. I recalled an assignment which I had been given for a church committee and which I had set aside time and again for lack of inspiration, thus adding even more to the belief of inactivity. "Is it any wonder," I suddenly asked myself, "that such a state of thought should ultimately manifest itself in a crippled body?"
The leaven of Truth was indeed at work, and when I fell asleep it was with a sense of peace and assurance. The next morning I wakened filled with joy and gratitude and leaped out of bed as free as a bird. Not a sign of the complaint was left. My company's business began to improve from that day, and at the end of the year we had far exceeded in volume the business of the preceding year. The paper I had postponed writing for my church committee virtually wrote itself the next evening. I had been lifted up as is the eagle when he sets his wings to meet the storm. This was just one of the many joyous experiences in the life of one who has found her way in Christian Science to be the way of Love's unfoldment.
