Four years ago I had an illness which increased the size of my body to such abnormal proportions that there was a question in my mind as to whether or not I would recover. Breathing was very difficult, and I was unable to move around. This experience was a baffling one to me, for I had always enjoyed good health. At times I was greatly tempted to wonder what the condition might be, and why I had it.
I asked a Christian Science practitioner for help. He gave me much to study from the Bible and from Mrs. Eddy's writings. All this I accepted willingly, and I worked faithfully to get clearer views of God and of man, made in His image and likeness. Thoughts of personal sense, self, and an uncontrolled zeal were false characteristics that were limiting my freedom. I had always been athletic and active, and I prided myself on being a healthy mortal. Such a concept of myself, I found, could change to that of an unhealthy mortal. Neither one was true of God's man.
The practitioner reminded me of the importance of studying the Lesson-Sermon, published in the Quarterly, the first thing in the morning. So much good came from this practice that I found myself studying the lesson three and four times a day. Often I began at four thirty in the morning. This procedure continues today. It was interesting to find that each section has a specific topic which refers back to the subject of the lesson. The continuity of each section with the previous section brought spiritual light and unfoldment that I had not known before.
