MORE THAN A DECADE AGO, I accepted the belief that I needed eyeglasses. When I began serving my branch Church of Christ, Scientist, as First Reader, I had to use my glasses to read. Recently, however, I went up to the desk at a Wednesday night testimony meeting and read the passages without my glasses. I even read the hymns out of the small-print hymnal that I purchased some years ago. I had no difficulty in reading the small print.
I did not set out to heal my eyesight, and I can attest that there is no formula to a healing of any sort. I would get up every day and I would pray to God to reveal to me what He wanted me to do for that day, and with His help it was accomplished with ease. I would say to myself each day that I would take each activity to be performed step by step, knowing who was really performing the activity. There were some things that I felt God-directed to do that I was reluctant to do, but I performed them without question.
I learned to listen every day for God's guidance. I learned to be disciplined in whatever I was guided to do. I never questioned the path that I was directed to follow. I also learned to listen to others. I used to think that I was wasting my and other people's time when they requested that I look at a project they had just completed. I learned that it was very important to take that time and look at that achievement, seeing it not just as a human achievement but as evidence of spiritual good—a spiritual idea that had come to fruition.
