In late July of 2019, my wife and I were returning from a week of canoeing in the Boundary Waters of Minnesota. We were at the airport in Salt Lake City to make a connecting flight to Boise, Idaho, for a family reunion, when a sense of disorientation seemed to come over me. I wasn’t able to remember words and couldn’t speak in complete sentences.
My wife called a Christian Science practitioner right away. It seemed wise to change our plans and fly back home to Fort Worth, Texas.
I pray often with the Lord’s Prayer, including its spiritual interpretation as given by Mary Baker Eddy in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. This spiritual sense of the Lord’s Prayer has greatly strengthened my understanding of it, and is what makes the prayer so powerful to me.
As we waited for confirmation of our new travel plans, I was trying to repeat the Lord’s Prayer, but the only words I could remember were “Our Father.” I remembered a testimony I’d read years ago where a woman had a similar experience. She had lost consciousness, and when she came to, the word feathers was all that came to her thought. She recognized this was from the 91st Psalm.
Speaking of God, the verse says, “He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler” (Psalms 91:4). She had a complete healing. So I reasoned that “Our Father” was all I needed and I felt very calm.
We were able to get a flight back to Fort Worth. When we got home and were in bed, I asked my wife to pray the Lord’s Prayer with me because I still couldn’t remember it. She took the lead and we prayed together.
When I woke up the next morning, all was well. I prayed the Lord’s Prayer by myself! I called the practitioner to let her know I was free. That was the end of the trouble, and it has never returned.
What a blessing Christian Science is!
J. Douglas Wood
North Richland Hills, Texas, US
