I have been studying Christian Science for ten years now, and I am grateful for many healings. But what I am most grateful for is the knowledge that God, divine Love, is ever-present. He is as close to me as my thought. I proved this again one night not long ago, when I experienced a severe gastric attack.
When the symptoms started, I began to pray. I declared that God's was there for me. At first it seemed impossible to turn away from thinking of myself as a sick mortal and to see myself as spiritual and well. Then the thought came to me to "shout down" the thoughts and feelings of illness. So I spoke aloud the truth that I am God's child, made in His likeness, subject only to His goodness and love. I declared that illness is a lie and that I wouldn't accept it into my thought. I embody God's perfection and harmony, and that is all I can experience.
I went to bed, but was disturbed by the illness many times I recalled this instruction form Science and Health: "Like the great Exemplar, the healer should speak to disease as one having authority over it, leaving Soul to master the false evidences of the corporeal senses and to assert its claims over mortality and disease" (p. 395). So I kept on realizing that I am God's child, spiritual and perfect.
