"Our gratitude is riches" (Hymn No. 249), Christian Science Hymnal, and certainly I am rich in gratitude for Christian Science and for Mrs. Eddy, who gave us this Science. I am grateful too for class instruction and the spiritual unfoldment it has given me.
My healing of chronic constipation some eleven years ago was perhaps the first major physical healing for me in Christian Science. The time came when I took my stand in Science. I used in my prayerful work this statement from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy (p. 125): "Neither organic inaction nor overaction is beyond God's control; and man will be found normal and natural to changed mortal thought, and therefore more harmonious in his manifestations than he was in the prior states which human belief created and sanctioned."
I had to see that I could be healed of this organic inaction by depending on God alone. Man is harmonious as the expression of omniactive Life, Mind, and Principle. What I seemed to be seeing in my experience was only human belief, created by mortal mind and sanctioned by mortal mind. I had dominion over this mortal mind suggestion of inaction because omniactive Life gave me dominion. After ten days of prayerful work and complete reliance on Christian Science, the need was met, and the healing is one for which I shall always be grateful.
