About 18 months ago I found myself with all the symptoms of a severe cold. I called a Christian Science practitioner from the office to ask her to pray with me about the condition. After talking with her, I decided I should go home in order to have a quiet place for prayer.
At first, I had a hard time letting go of the compulsion to get back to work. During the previous six months my job had become exceptionally challenging and I had been working longer and longer hours trying to keep up. I had also been having to manage serious conflicts between several different staff members.
In addition to congestion and a deep cough, I was experiencing profound fatigue. I needed to rest and sleep much of the time. And although I found my study and prayer inspiring, I began to feel discouraged. I couldn't understand why I wasn't being healed more quickly. I knew that the truth was effective, yet I thought I should be seeing evidence of this in improved physical health. Then the practitioner helped me to stop seeing myself as a mortal going through a healing process over a period of time. Instead, I began to realize that, in God's eyes, I was always the perfect, spiritual idea of His creating.
