It’s incredibly reassuring to know that we are one with God, as taught and proved by Christ Jesus. Divinely loving, comforting thoughts of good from the one divine Mind naturally permeate our consciousness, even when we’re not fully awake to that oneness. Christian Science, wholly based on Christ’s original teachings, and discovered in 1866 by Mary Baker Eddy, has shown me that I can listen for and obey the guidance of the one Father-Mother God, good, at any time.
My peace was interrupted one night by a sharp headache and a sore throat. Although I was only half awake, I began praying and found myself gratefully affirming the presence of God, good, and that bodily conditions could not dictate my quality of life because God already did, and does!
Then, the previous day’s scenes surfaced in thought: It had been cool and windy and I’d been outside all afternoon. Afterward, it had taken me a long time to warm up. When getting ready for bed later on, I had voiced how tired I was.
Even when barely awake, I realized that I had mapped out a mental path for myself that claimed that I was liable to become ill. But thanks to Christian Science, I knew that I have God-given rights to health, harmony, and the pursuit of understanding. I protested with spiritual reasoning. Sleepiness did not prevent me from clearly declaring my inseparability from God and knowing the ever-present spiritual law of good health. On the basis of such divine law being the only law, there is never any legitimate reason nor liability to be sick or sinful—and I felt the power of this truth.
In the textbook of Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy writes in the chapter titled “Physiology”: “All disease is the result of education, and disease can carry its ill-effects no farther than mortal mind maps out the way” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 176). And in the chapter “Footsteps of Truth” she writes: “With its divine proof, Science reverses the evidence of material sense. Every quality and condition of mortality is lost, swallowed up in immortality” (p. 215).
Divine Mind is always lovingly directing the way. The physical senses do not show what is real; they have no case against me or against the harmony, wellness, completeness, and goodness that come from God. The laws of God are right here. They are always in effect, unchanged since Jesus healed leprosy, a withered hand, chronic hemorrhaging—all examples of mortal mind mapping out the way of disease. By degrees, we, too, can demonstrate the laws of God and prove the physical senses to be false.
After I had prayed, all symptoms ended quickly. They were “lost, swallowed up in immortality,” and I awoke later in the morning completely healthy and remained so.
I can testify that through decades of sincere prayer and consistently refuting suggestions that sickness has power, I have enjoyed a lifetime of good health, quick healings, and freedom from bodily complaints. I’m deeply grateful—not only for my health but for the mental freedom gained from understanding God’s goodness.
Allison D. Eggers
Manchester, Missouri, US
