When I first began the study of Christian Science, I thought I was looking only for physical healings. After studying for a while I realized I was receiving far more than that. Worry was replaced with a greater sense of love and joy and confidence in God. Many false character traits were overcome. Criticism was replaced with love and gratitude. The habits of smoking and drinking were replaced by an inner peace that truly satisfied me and made life have a deeper, richer meaning than it had ever had before.
I would like to relate one healing I experienced some time ago that has meant much to me. I had a large growth on one of my heels and had to wear special shoes to accommodate it. I was new in the study of Christian Science, and while many discordant conditions had been overcome, this one had not. After a while I became indignant about it because the growth was becoming larger. I decided I would not look at it, as I was placing too much importance on it and was letting it usurp my thinking. I earnestly tried to shut out every false or unkind thought and to focus on the truths I was learning in daily study of the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly and to put them into practical use.
One morning several days later I awakened with this verse in my thought: "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee" (Isa. 26:3). I was filled with a great sense of love and gratitude and went happily through a busy day, not even thinking about my heel at all. That night I discovered that the growth had completely disappeared and my heel was smooth and normal. Mrs. Eddy states in the textbook, Science and Health (p. 463), "A spiritual idea has not a single element of error, and this truth removes properly whatever is offensive."
