I am grateful to report the quick and complete healing of a severe headache and the fear associated with it. I serve my branch Church of Christ, Scientist, as First Reader, and one Wednesday evening as I was conducting the testimony meeting, a feeling of weakness, fatigue, and headache came over me. With the sudden onset of these physical symptoms, which seemed extreme, came a fear of not being able to handle this metaphysically or even to finish the service.
I know from my experience in Christian Science that fear or anything that would challenge our health and harmony is never part of the real man; they are aggressive suggestions trying to impose themselves. Many times, I’ve seen such suggestions corrected by spiritually uplifting my thought, so I decided to address this situation prayerfully.
While testimonies were being shared, I silently affirmed that health and harmony are the law of God, that I am never subjected to anything else since God is omnipresent and omnipotent, that illness is only an illusion, and that God is the very source of my being—leaving no possibility for fear, pain, or inharmony of any kind. I had been preparing for this service by praying to know that the readings and testimonies would bless and uplift everyone present, and that, I reasoned, included me. One of the passages in the readings that evening had been this one from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: “Christ came to destroy the belief of sin. The God-principle is omnipresent and omnipotent. God is everywhere, and nothing apart from Him is present or has power. Christ is the ideal Truth, that comes to heal sickness and sin through Christian Science, and attributes all power to God” (p. 473). I knew that an understanding of the “God-principle” would dispel sickness and restore harmony in my experience.
