I am extremely grateful for all the good that Christian Science helps me to regularly demonstrate.
Some time ago, my wife and I had planned to spend a week’s vacation in the mountains. During the days preceding our trip, I was experiencing constant pain in one of my teeth. This bothered me a lot, but I didn’t feel a need to go to a dentist, because I felt certain that I could heal myself through my own prayer, as I am used to doing.
We left for our vacation. But the day after our arrival, the pain intensified. I did not sleep well, and kept praying to affirm that the condition was not part of me, since I knew that I was God’s idea, His perfect image, including no pain. I tried to concentrate and to study deeply the weekly Christian Science Bible Lesson that was on the subject of “Spirit” that week. I drew on all the spiritual truths that I could find in the Lesson that could support me, strengthening my courage to persevere. Mary Baker Eddy writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: “There is divine authority for believing in the superiority of spiritual power over material resistance” (p. 134). I clung to those words - to keep those spiritual ideas uppermost in my mind, in order to reveal my veritable spiritual nature.
