About twelve years ago, I suddenly became aware of a severe infection in both my ears. At first the condition left me almost deaf. It also had other painful, unsightly, and embarrassing aspects. To hide it, I wore my hair long enough to cover my ears. As time went on it took on a chronic nature, always a problem but at some times it was more painful and disturbing than others. I had asked for help from Christian Science practitioners a number of times over a period of years, and attempted to pray for myself, but the condition remained. Finally a practitioner said to me, "Just devote yourself to making spiritual progress. Then you will get your healing." This I decided to do.
One day I found myself trying to remember a certain passage from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. It had seemed important to me on other occasions to recall these particular words, but somehow I could never remember them. Each time it was necessary to go back to Science and Health and look the passage up. "Why can't you remember it?" I wondered, since I had looked it up many times. Then the angel thought followed, "Because you don't understand it." So that day I sat down with my books and prayed earnestly to understand its meaning. The statement reads (p. 395): "Like the great Exemplar, the healer should speak to disease as one having authority over it, leaving Soul to master the false evidences of the corporeal senses and to assert its claims over mortality and disease."
As I prayed I saw that, like Jesus, I was empowered by my Father-Mother God to speak to this unreal problem as one having authority over it, and that I could let go of the false evidence that had seemed so unpleasant and disturbing, leaving it to the mastery of Soul's perfection and harmony.
