"I’m fine. The pain is gone. …witness(ed) the simplicity of healing"

We were on vacation, and one afternoon, my husband suddenly said he needed to lie down because his back hurt. He felt like he’d twisted it, but he couldn’t recall doing so. Then he said his side hurt. Then he started sweating. Although he’s not a Christian Scientist, he said he would like some prayerful help. The Bible Lesson subject was God, and I immediately recalled that there were several strong statements in the lesson that I thought would be very accessible to my husband. I read several aloud to him. One was from Science and Health: “When we realize that Life is Spirit, never in nor of matter, this understanding will expand into self-completeness, finding all in God, good, and needing no other consciousness.” (p. 264:15) And “Everything in God’s universe expresses Him. He is all-inclusive, and is reflected by all that is real and eternal and by nothing else. He fills all space, and it is impossible to conceive of such omnipresence and individuality except as infinite Sprit or Mind. Hence all is Spirit and spiritual.” (p. 331:16,20) Also, “Let us rejoice that we are subject to the divine ‘powers that be.’” (p. 249:8-9) I then asked if he would like me to read the entire lesson to him. He did, and I began reading. I had just started the second section when I saw out of the corner of my eye that he was standing up. He said, “I’m fine. The pain is gone.” We went on to have an active and fun remainder of our trip with no recurrence of the problem.

We were both very grateful for this quick healing – for my husband to be relieved of the pain and for me, and I think both of us, to witness the simplicity of healing in Christian Science. Truth does the work; we only need to listen understandingly, trustingly, and obediently to it. I’ll add that a couple of weeks after we returned home, my husband said that there was no doubt in his mind that this was a true healing.