I kept a list of all the healings I had last year. I was healed of an irritated bump on my cheek, a prolonged constant pain in my arm, a migraine headache, menstrual cramps, a canker sore, influenza, laryngitis, and a spreading, itching rash.
I also experienced several instantaneous healings. I burned my hand on the heating element of an oven and immediately declared, "'There is no sensation in matter,' and I'm not going to give it any!" (See Science and Health, p. 237.) There was no pain, and the burn healed quickly. Sharp stomach pains were healed within minutes while I was listening to a recording of the chapter from Science and Health, "Animal Magnetism Unmasked." After I prayed to know, "A spiritual idea has not a single element of error, and this truth removes properly whatever is offensive" (ibid., p. 463), my husband was then able to remove a deeply embedded, and very painful, staple from my thumb, quickly and painlessly. A stomachache that had persisted for about six hours was healed immediately while I was sincerely praying to understand "the scientific statement of being" (see Science and Health, p. 468). And a painfully knotted muscle in one arm was healed within moments of praying a line from a hymn that came to my thought.
While flying in a small commuter plane for the first time, I was overcome with fear and claustrophobia. My husband and I both prayed. The first thought that came to me was from the Bible: "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear" (I John 4:18). Next, I recognized that I am in the kingdom of heaven, and that I couldn't go outside the kingdom of heaven—whether I was on land or in the sky, or in a big or small plane. Immediately the fear and claustrophobia disappeared. I loved the flight! It was fun!
