Wherever we are in life, whatever we’re doing, we can always hear God. As Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science, says, “. . . there is no place where His voice is not heard; . . .” (Unity of Good, p. 2).
Isn’t that a huge part of healing, when we have removed all sense of self and there isn’t a conversation going on with two opposing views, good and evil, spiritual and material? When we are hearing only God, His “still, small voice,” and understanding Love’s control over all?
Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “One moment of divine consciousness, or the spiritual understanding of Life and Love, is a foretaste of eternity” (p. 598). What a beautiful promise. In that “moment of divine consciousness,” we find peace, confidence, and healing.
I leaned on God and stayed with God.
A few years ago I had a challenge with walking. I would pray and gain some understanding—even some physical freedom—but it came to a point where most days I was walking with a cane and experiencing pain at night. I was contemplating using a walker. But I expected a complete healing, and I knew this condition wasn’t true about me as God’s expression, His perfect idea—upright and free. I also understood that I wasn’t healing a leg or a “popular” ailment; I was changing my thought to realize the health and mobility I knew were already truly there.
At this point I contacted a Christian Science nursing facility in our area, and they let me know they would come and help in any way needed. Even as I explained the challenge and the items possibly needed, I knew they were accepting my spiritual perfection right then. I could feel their love.
In my prayer I handled the thought of age and time by insisting that I was forever a spiritual idea, untouched by any suggestion of limitation. I loved working with the definition of time in Science and Health: “Mortal measurements; limits, in which are summed up all human acts, thoughts, beliefs, opinions, knowledge; matter; error; that which begins before, and continues after, what is termed death, until the mortal disappears and spiritual perfection appears” (p. 595).
That worked so beautifully with the definition of day, also in Science and Health: “The irradiance of Life; light, the spiritual idea of Truth and Love.
“ ‘And the evening and the morning were the first day.’ (Genesis i. 5.) The objects of time and sense disappear in the illumination of spiritual understanding, and Mind measures time according to the good that is unfolded. This unfolding is God’s day, and ‘there shall be no night there’ ” (p. 584).
The definition of year brought everything together; it reads in part: “A solar measurement of time; mortality; space for repentance.
“ ‘One day is with the Lord as a thousand years.’ (II Peter iii. 8.)
“One moment of divine consciousness, or the spiritual understanding of Life and Love, is a foretaste of eternity” (Science and Health, p. 598).
Those ideas buoyed my thought. I leaned on God and stayed with God, and I must note here that I was truly never discouraged. I never asked why or when or how this healing was going to take place.
And then one night at a Wednesday testimony meeting, a beautiful healing was shared. A woman told how she and her horse had been involved in a serious accident, with injuries sustained by both. The two were healed, and the healing was so complete that they later went on to enter a competition—and won. So I went to bed that night with the confidence of complete perfection, and the unusual thought of “Perfect God, perfect man, perfect horse.”
The next morning, I woke up and felt freer than I had in months. I’d had no pain during the night. I took out the recycling, went grocery shopping, and visited a dear friend. I had not had a full morning like that in quite a while. By Saturday morning I was completely free. No pain, no limp, no cane! Christian Science had led me to rebuke any suggestion that I was separated from God.
Christian Science had led me to rebuke any suggestion that I was separated from God.
Even as I write this and look back on the healing, I realize I had only changed my thought. I had totally dropped the mortal view and gained an entirely spiritual view of myself as God’s image. I knew hearing the angel message that night (“Perfect God, perfect man, perfect horse”) was a “moment of divine consciousness,” of listening only to God. I live in Georgia and the Zoom testimony meeting I attended was in California, yet I had a sense of no time, no space, no limits—and a church without walls; only God and His children, wedded to the Divine.
Also, I knew that during that time of consistent prayer, my candle had been lit. Truth was daily illuminating the suggested darkness of mortal mind. I was expecting healing as I was recognizing the unreality of age and time.
What is so dear to me is that I went to bed after the testimony meeting with that fresh, bright, simple, yet inspiring angel message—and it was midnight! This reminded me of Mrs. Eddy’s statement, “In Christian Science the midnight hour will always be the bridal hour, until ‘no night is there.’ The wise will have their lamps aglow, and light will illumine the darkness” (Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896, p. 276).
There didn’t need to be a conversation with opposite views of good and evil, life and death, Spirit and matter. Because in Truth, there is only one voice. And I’d heard it.
