It is high time for me to give thanks for all that Christian Science has done for me throughout my life. I am most appreciative of my mother's faith in God, which steered my life into what the Bible calls the "strait" and "narrow" way. During my childhood all illnesses and diseases—mumps, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping cough—were healed through my mother's understanding of God or with the aid of treatment from a Christian Science practitioner.
God was present to see that all my needs were cared for.
When I was six, I suffered from an earache several times. I would wake at night in pain. Mom would come and comfort and pray for me, and I would feel fine and fall asleep again. Once she explained to me that the difficulty was just a lie, because God's child can't be sick. And that I could overcome it by not believing this lie, so we didn't need to do something to change my ears. This idea clicked with me, and I asked her if that meant that I could literally shout down the lie. She said I could. So the next time my ear hurt, I did. The pain stopped, and that was the end of the earaches.
