Just over a year ago I seemed so seriously ill, incapacitated, and in pain, that I kept telling my wife "goodbye." She would lovingly smile, encourage me with strong statements of God's healing care for me as His expression, and remind me there was no place to go; I could only express Life! Hourly I prayed to obey Mrs. Eddy's instruction in Science and Health, "Establish the scientific sense of health, and you relieve the oppressed organ" (p. 373). I wanted to see this proof that my likeness to divine Life has never been interrupted. The Bible verse "In him we live, and move, and have our being" (Acts 17:28) to me came to mean, I'm living right now in the kingdom of God, the consciousness of eternal Life. My place there is secure—and I want to stay.
Faith in God's
power overturned
the lie of disease.
Excellent daily treatment through prayer from a Christian Science practitioner was helpful, yet the symptoms persisted. At one point I asked for the care of a Christian Science nurse, who quickly came. A comment she made alerted me to refute the beliefs of poison, such as might come from a tick or spider bite. I had raked and cleaned a large wooded area behind our home, as well as the lawn of our branch Church of Christ, Scientist. Immediately we declared God as the only cause, and affirmed that all creation is maintained by Him.
