A friend who is a professional musician had a decisive healing a few years ago. She relied entirely on God and on His law of harmony after an accident had taken away her sight. She was repairing some musical instruments at the college where she taught, when the aerosol she was using exploded. Two eye specialists who examined her at the request of the college told her that both her eyes were irreparably damaged.
My friend asked a Christian Science practitioner to pray for her. The account of her healing appeared in the Journal, October 1986. She explains, "We affirmed that true sight is included in spiritual understanding and that the real man is always at the standpoint of perfection and therefore needs no rehabilitation." Soon she was able to fulfill her concert engagements; she traveled freely, although she was still totally unable to see. She writes, "I truly felt enveloped in God's love." Within six months her sight was restored so fully that she no longer needed the glasses that she had previously used for reading.
What brought about this remarkable healing? It was the application of God's law and the power of His Word in systematic Christian Science treatment that brought to light man's present perfection as God's image and likeness. To those of us who witnessed this healing, it was a powerful reminder that the Christ which Jesus lived so supremely is present today to enlighten, heal, and transform people's lives. Christ Jesus certainly knew the power of God's Word to penetrate darkness and fear and bring healing and regeneration into people's everyday experience. John's Gospel records, "That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world." John 1:9.
