Thirty-eight years ago Christian Science healed me of a painful disorder in my back. Three physicians had said surgery was essential. I was experiencing a great deal of domination as well as persecution and decided to have help from a Christian Science practitioner for the mental stresses I had been enduring. There was a very remarkable healing of personal relationships at that time. Then, since Christian Science had helped me so effectively in this way, I decided to trust its efficacy with my back as well. I did not have surgery.
I began reading Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, day and night. After several weeks I was able to go downstairs and resume many activities, although the healing took place very gradually, and most of my reading was done in bed.
Two statements from the Bible stood out clearly in this healing. I was wondering how reading the Bible could bring healing to so many people when their troubles were all so different. How could inspiration from the Bible help this peculiar thing about my back? Wasn't the Bible just words? Then I remembered (John 1:1), "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." That was it! The Word was with power, in fact, "the Word was God." Of course it healed. And (v. 3), "All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." So I reasoned I must have been created perfect as an idea of God —and since nothing was made without Him, my being was established in perfect strength and symmetry without a separation, for God, perfect cause, was the author of my being and I was not separate from Him.
