I should like to express my gratitude for a healing of defective eyesight. I had been wearing glasses for two years and found that my eyesight was deteriorating. This worried me quite a bit, and the defect was interfering with the efficiency of my work. I had spiritualized my thought through the study of Christian Science over a period of twenty years or so, but I did not feel happy about the situation because of the gradual deterioration, and I was relying more and more on the glasses.
I wrote to a practitioner about it, and she wrote back reminding me that we could always hope for an instantaneous healing. However, I went to an optometrist, and he said my glasses were slightly wrong and prescribed new ones.
About two days after this, while I was working, feeling weighed down by anxiety about the future, suddenly I felt, as it were, a veil lift from my eyes, and I thought, "I believe I can see without glasses." I took them off, and the print, which before had been illegible to me, was now much clearer. I felt elated. The load seemed to have been lifted from my mind. Our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, says in Science and Health (p. 259), "The divine nature was best expressed in Christ Jesus, who threw upon mortals the truer reflection of God and lifted their lives higher than their poor thought-models would allow,—thoughts which presented man as fallen, sick, sinning, and dying."
