Recently, I was thinking about all of my healings in Christian Science since I became a branch church member. I realized that my most meaningful healings came about as I applied myself diligently to praying for situations in my church. While chairing a regional church meeting in the late 1970s, I had been praying on the subject of unity and oneness and having no separation from God’s plan. At the same time, it became obvious that a long-standing challenge of having a bad temper had increasingly found a place in my thought. I had realized that anger was not a quality of God and therefore not a quality of mine as His reflection. Things in the meetings were unsettled, and I was working diligently to be a clear transparency for God’s will. I was extremely busy with frequent meetings in the summertime when my three children were not in school.
One day, I was angry with one of the members of my family, and as I was running upstairs I fell over a ledge and struck one of my ribs. At first, the area around the rib was just painful, but after picking strawberries and doing some gardening, it felt like my rib was digging into my lungs. I became quiet and decided that I must handle this as an imposition on my thought and activity, because I was innocent of any transgression, and also because I was the beloved child of God.
At this point, it became very difficult to breathe, so I called a Christian Science practitioner for a fresh perspective on my prayers for healing. She said, “Nothing stops your inspiration, dear.” And she said she would continue to pray with me.
