I was just relearning Spanish when my church began to hold Spanish-language services, and I became the soloist. One Sunday morning I woke up with a terrible case of the flu. I called the First Reader, and we prayed together. If I couldn't sing, there was no one else who could step in for me.
I made it to the service, and as I stepped out on the platform for the first hymn, I felt such love and appreciation from the congregation, and the symptoms lessened. But my voice still didn't sound natural. The Scriptural reading and Lord's Prayer came and went, as did the second hymn. As I played the guitar intro to the solo, I thought about how Mary Baker Eddy said in Science and Health that God's language is spiritual (see p. 117). I felt the listeners' appreciation so strongly that I began to improve even more. After my solo, I listened to the Readers read the Lesson-Sermon, and I felt strengthened hearing those spiritual ideas. The result: I walked out of that service healed!
Burbank, California
