About three years ago I became quite ill and suffered a collapse which left me in great pain and unable to move my arms. For about two years prior to this I'd been having difficulty moving my arms freely and breathing easily. Because of anxiety on the part of my family, arrangements were made for me to enter a Christian Science nursing facility.
The love and care received during my four-week stay there were something I shall never forget. The tireless love and patient nursing, together with a Christian Science practitioner's prayer, freed me from a fear of passing on. This experience proved at length to be the most challenging, and at the same time the happiest, in my life.
I never allowed myself to become discouraged, even when I was in severe pain and every action or movement was restricted. I just clung to the truth, knowing that God was— is—the only power, and that illness is therefore lawless; nothing that does not express good has ever had life or received power from God.
