Christian Science has been my mainstay since I was a young teenager. It has guided me, protected me, healed me, and brought me joy more times than I can number.
About two years ago I was suddenly unable to walk. I had to drag myself from chair to chair. I asked a Christian Science practitioner to treat me while I also prayed. I knew that God, divine Mind, is the source of my movement and that movement did not depend on legs. I read references in the Bible and in Science and Health that concerned move, movement, freedom. After about three weeks, however, I became discouraged. One day when I was lying on the couch, looking out the window, I wondered if I would ever walk again. At this moment a passage from Science and Health came to me: "Citizens of the world, accept the 'glorious liberty of the children of God,' and be free! This is your divine right" (p. 227). Very soon I was able to walk freely and normally.
Christian Science has protected me from being harmed by violent weather (a hurricane and a tornado) and from the effects of an earthquake. Years ago my husband and I drove to Galveston, Texas, while on vacation. After we had crossed the causeway to Galveston Island, we turned on the car radio. The announcer said that a hurricane was headed our way and would arrive in forty minutes. We were very surprised. As we were trying to decide whether to stay on the island or take the chance of being caught on the causeway back to the mainland, I thought, "If only I knew a practitioner to call for treatment." And then I realized that every practitioner who had heard that weather report would naturally be praying. The announcer reported that the hurricane would arrive in thirty minutes, then twenty, then ten. I remembered the phrase from Science and Health, ".. and said to the proud wave, 'Thus far and no farther.'" (The entire passage reads: "Adhesion, cohesion, and attraction are properties of Mind. They belong to divine Principle, and support the equipoise of that thought-force, which launched the earth in its orbit and said to the proud wave, 'Thus far and no farther'" [p. 124].) The next report said that the hurricane had turned and was going back along the coast. It later touched land in an open field without causing any damage.
