One weekend when I was a teenager, some friends and I hiked in the canyon below their house. Within a couple of days, I was covered from head to toe with a poison oak rash. Because I had experienced previous healings through prayer, I told my parents I wanted to rely on Christian Science for this healing as well. In addition to sharing helpful ideas with me from the Bible, they encouraged me to call a Christian Science practitioner to pray for me, which I did. The practitioner prayed for me over the next few days, and I held on to the truths she shared about me as a child of God.
In the weeks prior, I had just begun reading the textbook of Christian Science, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, cover to cover, so I continued reading it while I stayed home from school. I didn’t understand all that I read, but I could feel my thoughts being uplifted. I was reminded that Christ Jesus healed those who were sick through spiritual means alone, and Science and Health was showing me how I, too, could have a spiritual healing.
I was learning that God is All, and that He made everything good and indestructible. This truth is the basis for experiencing harmony in our lives. Evil of any kind is destroyed by understanding that it is not real, but rather a false belief—a suggestion in thought that can be rejected as no part of God’s creation.
