In January 2010, I traveled with my daughter to Argentina and Chile. When I put on my headphones to watch a movie on the airplane, I realized that I could hear very little with my right ear and nothing with my left ear. Until then, I had not been fully aware of the problem. But I remembered that in previous months, whenever I’d spoken with someone on the phone, I’d had to move the receiver from one ear to the other because I couldn’t hear well. All this time, I had thought the phone wasn’t working properly.
During the trip, my daughter told me that she would schedule a doctor’s appointment for me because she had noticed the hearing impairment. (My daughter reads The Herald of Christian Science magazines that I give her, and is receptive to their message, but she doesn’t practice Christian Science, as I do.)
When I arrived home, I asked a Christian Science practitioner to prayerfully support me. He recommended that I ponder specific passages in reference to hearing in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, including the spiritual definition of ears: “Not organs of the so-called corporeal senses, but spiritual understanding” (p. 585).
