A healing I once had taught me a vital spiritual lesson and has enabled me to pray more wholeheartedly and clearly for those struggling with illness in the world today.
At the time I was taken ill with a fever and a cough, so I called a Christian Science practitioner to pray for me. I recovered to the point of being up and out of bed; however, the cough persisted.
Weeks went by with no apparent change. Then one day I was sitting quietly enjoying the pristine beauty of the morning. I was still coughing but was praying deeply for complete healing. In the quiet I became aware that a tune was repeatedly coming to me. It was Hymn 195 from the Christian Science Hymnal, which begins,
