One day just before Christmas last year, my twelve-year-old son, Nathan, helped me have a quick healing. I’m a Christian Science nurse, and I was scheduled to work the night shift at a Christian Science nursing facility. I’d rested for several hours to prepare for this. However, when I got up to go to work I felt very sick and weak. Nathan and I were in the kitchen, and I told him I didn’t feel well. I didn’t see how I’d be able to work that night, and I was due to leave in ten minutes.
Sometimes when faced with a challenging situation it helps me to affirm out loud Mary Baker Eddy’s spiritual interpretation of the first line of the Lord’s Prayer, “Our Father-Mother God, all-harmonious” (Science and Health, p. 16). This establishes God’s loving, all-powerful presence firmly in thought. I knew I could only ever be in His loving presence, where there is no sickness or anything that would prevent me from going about my work.
That night, I was reaching out to God for help, but all I could seem to say was “Father-Mother God.” When I said that out loud, Nathan finished with “all-harmonious.” This went on a few more times. I would say, “Father-Mother God,” and Nathan would affirm “all-harmonious.” It was as if he wasn’t going to accept the evidence of sickness. He spoke with such confidence that I felt expectant of healing and strengthened in holding to the spiritual reality that I am God’s child, an expression of harmony and perfection. Both Nathan and I had seen this healing truth proved over and over in our family.
