How grateful I am for God's absolute law of goodness and for the fact that "the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword" (Heb. 4:12). In the first two years of my son's life, he seemed to have many colds during the winter season. Although I always turned to Christian Science Science treatment, I felt that I didn't always do so with enough immediacy and sometimes felt that the colds just "ran their course" instead of really being healed.
During this past winter, however, my day-care provider called me at work to tell me my son had diarrhea and he would not be able to attend day care until it was healed. I thanked her for letting me know, and as I hung up the telephone I denied that my son could ever be subject to evil, and firmly declared his life and health to be held forever in God, Spirit, not matter. Since I had a big project due the next day at work, I had to work late and then also brought work home. I saw my son for a few minutes to say prayers before his father put him to bed, but I knew his father and I were both praying. When I finally finished the project for work, it was late, but I wanted to pray specifically for my son before going to bed. I decided right then and there that prayer and inspiration do not have to be difficult or take a long time. I closed my eyes and humbly asked God what I needed to know. As I listened, the answer was immediate and effortless: "He has never been separated from his true selfhood." I realized my son had never lost his innocence, had never been separated for one instant from his ever-present Father-Mother God. Thus, sickness is an impossibility. It is not part of God, so it is not part of man. As Science and Health states, "Man is never sick, for Mind is not sick and matter cannot be" (p. 393). I rejoiced in knowing that nothing unlike God, good, could ever be a part of my son or his experience.
Next morning it
was evident that he
was completely
healed.
