Recently, my wife and I were on a vacation cruise, and she came down with a cold. We shared a very small cabin, which is the case on most cruise ships. I found other places to read so my wife could rest in our stateroom, but I also wanted to support healing.
I began by reading to her the weekly Christian Science Bible Lesson in the Christian Science Quarterly. It was packed with spiritual truths from the Bible and from Mary Baker Eddy’s book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. These ideas directed our thought away from the sickness, which was suggesting that God was not always in control. They reminded her that each of us is spiritual and so is exempt from sickness. Also, I was protecting myself by recognizing my freedom from cold in those cramped quarters.
After we returned from the cruise, the cold symptoms were diminishing for her, but I soon had a cold. I read the Christian Science Sentinel from cover to cover, particularly dwelling on the healings under “News of Healing.” I was standing guard over my thought, as a “sentinel” does, and “watching.” As it says on the cover of the magazine, “What I say unto you I say unto all, ‘Watch’—Jesus.”
I was filling my consciousness with truths about myself—that I was spiritual, uninfluenced by sickness, and free of fear. After a couple of days, I was still experiencing some aggressive signs of the cold.
I decided to go to the Wednesday evening meeting at the branch Church of Christ, Scientist, I attend so I could listen to the healing readings from the Bible and Science and Health. I felt sure that in the spiritual atmosphere of church I would gain inspired ideas that would help me. I was also certain that these spiritual concepts would protect others from being affected by the cold symptoms I was experiencing. I took in the comments and testimonies of the congregation and declared my spirituality and my perfection. I left the meeting completely free of the cold.
I’m so grateful for God, for Jesus Christ, and to Mrs. Eddy for making the Bible more understandable, and for Christian Science practitioners and teachers to whom we can turn for healing prayer.
