One night about a month after the birth of our first child, I developed a fever. I began shivering with chills, which woke my husband. Lovingly concerned for my health and not yet familiar with Christian Science, he measured my temperature at 105 degrees and then strongly requested we go to the emergency clinic in the morning.
I agreed to, as I felt it was best to allow my husband to fulfill his highest sense of right in protecting the well-being of me and our new baby. Meanwhile, a Christian Science practitioner was prayerfully supporting our baby and me. All through the night, even during the worst symptoms of fever, I had an abiding sense of calm and trust in God, and I felt confident that all was well. Not wanting to rely on medical treatment, in the morning I prayed earnestly as I took a shower and dressed to go to the clinic.
I listened to the chapter titled “Physiology” in my audiobook of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. I turned my thought completely from the physical picture and pondered such clear statements as the following: “There can be no healing except by this Mind, however much we trust a drug or any other means towards which human faith or endeavor is directed. It is mortal mind, not matter, which brings to the sick whatever good they may seem to receive from materiality. But the sick are never really healed except by means of the divine power. Only the action of Truth, Life, and Love can give harmony” (p. 169).
