I would like to relate a recent healing that again proved to me God's ever-presence and the healing power of Christian Science.
One Tuesday afternoon I felt ill. I treated myself in Christian Science, affirming God's power and allness, evil's nothingness and powerlessness, and my immunity to evil. However, by early evening I became so ill I had to remain in bed. My husband and mother were with me and were at first rather alarmed at my condition. My husband reached a practitioner, who began Christian Science treatment immediately. Gradually paralysis of my hands, arms, and legs left, and temperature and breathing became normal. Sometime past midnight the paralysis again returned. The practitioner was again called, and the paralysis disappeared, not to return. By midmorning I was able to be up a bit and to retain something in my stomach.
During this experience I felt God, Life, closer than I have ever realized Him, although to the outward evidence it seemed just the opposite. I spoke aloud the truths of God and man that had meant so much to me. I claimed again and again my life as the blessed child of God, untouched by the illusive material senses. My husband and mother were such an inspiration to me, not wavering from radical reliance on God for healing. The practitioner asked my mother to read and reread to me this statement (Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, p. 300): "The temporal and unreal never touch the eternal and real. The mutable and imperfect never touch the immutable and perfect. The inharmonious and self-destructive never touch the harmonious and self-existent." Also in the Bible Lesson in the Christian Science Quarterly for that week was Paul's marvelous declaration of man's inseparability from the Christ. I felt the presence of the Christ, which reveals the true identity of all as beloved ideas of God. The Bible reference found in Romans (8:35-39) begins: "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? . . . Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us." My mother read it over and over, and I was able to dwell continually on the fact of my harmonious spiritual identity.
