I have had many healings through an understanding of God. Some problems have been more challenging to overcome, but I have always been blessed by relying firmly on spiritual truth until thought has been enlightened and the bodily condition has yielded as a natural result.
At one time, some years ago, I was troubled with sores on my scalp. I told no one about this. But through earnest prayer for greater inspiration, and from my daily study of the Bible Lesson in the Christian Science Quarterly, I gained powerful insights that contributed to the complete healing. In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy tells us (pp. 109-1 10), "The three great verities of Spirit, omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience,—Spirit possessing all power, filling all space, constituting all Science,—contradict forever the belief that matter can be actual." From this I gained a firm conviction, on the basis of Spirit's allness, that matter, as a nonentity, cannot be selfcreative, self-existent, or self-perpetuating. I also worked thoughtfully with "the scientific statement of being." It includes these words (ibid., p. 468): "Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal." As I drank in the truths of this statement, my consciousness became illumined, and the sores were entirely healed.
Some years later I was suddenly unable to put full weight on my limbs without great effort and pain. Although this confined me to my bed most of the time, I knew with certainty that I would be healed by prayer. Every time I had to get up, I refuted the suggestion that there is a logical cause for illness. This was accomplished by acknowledging the spiritual fact that since God, divine Mind, is the giver of all good, the only creator or cause, disease is baseless and causeless, therefore unreal. When thinking of the disorder, I often reminded myself, "There is no reason for this!" Passages from the Bible Lesson were affirmed vigorously, including this one (Science and Health, p. 283): "Mind is the source of all movement, and there is no inertia to retard or check its perpetual and harmonious action." I was convinced the difficulty was essentially an aggressive mental suggestion. And I refused to accept it as a "condition" by believing it to be in any way real. Although I had to lean on furniture to move about, all the while I placed my confidence in the supremacy of eternal Mind over material beliefs. The trouble left quite abruptly, and I was again able to move about freely with no vestige of the complaint.
