While living with me, my mother Alice experienced a wonderful instantaneous healing of a crippling infirmity through Christian Science. Sometime later, we as a family went to a theme park where there were miles of walking—and my mother was out ahead of the rest of us most of the way! Still later, back at home one day, she was skipping in the yard—something that could have looked simply foolish to an onlooker—a woman in her eighth decade skipping like a little girl. But in her gratitude for the healing she said, “I just feel as if I could take off and fly!”
It was then that the thought came to me, Why of course. Doesn’t the Bible say, “They that wait upon the Lord . . . shall run, and not be weary”? From this I grasped the fact that she was merely fulfilling a living Bible prophecy.
The full statement from Isaiah reads, “Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint” (Isa. 40:30, 31). Immediately following came the idea from Science and Health: “Mind’s infinite ideas run and disport themselves” (Science and Health, p. 514), depicting the present spiritual fact of the real man as free and fetterless.
