About seven and a half years ago, I started experiencing a hardness and persistent pain on one side of my chest. My first thought was that it was an incurable condition I'd heard a lot about on the news. I had always relied on prayer, which, in turn, was based on what I was learning from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, for all my health needs. So instead of going in for a diagnosis or medical treatment, I got busy and prayed.
Christian Science has shown me that all disease has a mental cause, so my prayers were more to take care of my thinking than my body. My goal was to rid my thinking about myself and others, as well as my actions each day, of any hardness or harshness. Also, to see that any growth that could ever be a part of me would have to be governed by God and could therefore be only spiritual growth, not material. This was the truth, I knew, but it didn't seem to be getting me anywhere.
Years went by, actually, and all the while, I was in pain and was afraid I wouldn't be healed. One day at work, hoping to find some new inspiration that would help the healing along, but still feeling pretty discouraged about the whole thing, the thought came that I needed to stop struggling with the problem.
