Years ago, a friend shared with me a healing she experienced through prayer, which included a powerful sense that God was present and all was well. At the time, she remarked that the thing that stood out to her was the feeling she had. It was a calm and exalted assurance that there was nothing to fear and that everything was fine. She then said, “The feeling was the healing.” In other words, at the moment she felt the power of God’s love for her so strongly, the illness disappeared. She was perfectly well and completely healed.
Her comment that “the feeling was the healing” really stood out to me. Since then, I have come to realize that, in the practice of Christian Science healing, it is the feeling one gets from drawing close to God—a feeling that carries with it the conviction of God’s eternal presence and power—that breaks the illusion of sickness or any other problem and results in healing.
The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, wrote a poem in which she posed a thought-provoking question: “Felt ye the power of the Word?” (Poems, p. 75). As a lifelong student of the Bible, she felt the importance and significance of God’s word. Throughout her life, she was often comforted by inspiration from the Scriptures. To her, they conveyed a constant source of might, peace, authority, and light.
