When a small growth appeared on my lip, I didn’t think much of it. But then it began to gradually get bigger and bigger. I became self-conscious because I felt others could see it, and it was difficult not to notice it when I looked in the mirror.
A verse from Science and Health was helpful: “. . . we must first turn our gaze in the right direction, and then walk that way. We must form perfect models in thought and look at them continually, or we shall never carve them out in grand and noble lives” (p. 248).
I prayed with a Christian Science practitioner for about two years, and eventually was led to call another practitioner. Immediately things began to surface in thought. In tears, I admitted to myself that I was thinking angry thoughts toward a certain relative and felt ashamed and guilty about this.
