Although I went to a Christian Science Sunday School as a child, I did not make this Science of Christianity my own until much later when I was in a position of urgent need. I had gone to a hospital emergency ward for treatment for a serious case of hives. The prescribed pills were ineffective, and the condition became more aggravated. This is when I decided to rely on Christian Science. I called a Christian Science practitioner for prayerful treatment.
The actual physical healing did not come immediately, but I quickly began to make progress in the way I viewed myself and my life, which is always the foundation of healing. I learned, for instance, that feelings that had been dominating me, such as defensiveness and self-pity, had to be replaced by love and humility, which were natural to me as an expression of God, divine Love.
The problem recurred off and on for over a year, although with less and less frequency. During this time I traveled to another country to do a service project. I was working in the middle of the jungle when this condition of hives flared up again. There were no Christian Scientists in the area, no telephones, and no immediate modes of transportation. I was suddenly, for the first time in my life, in a position in which I could depend on nothing and no one for help but God. I took the Bible and Science and Health, crawled under my mosquito netting into bed, and prayed and studied until I felt close to God and the fear had subsided. I woke up completely healed. In the twelve years since, that skin condition has never returned.
