Healings bring encouragement

Three beautiful healings in my practice came very close to each other in the past ten days.

In each instance the individual acknowledged the healing with gratitude. In one case I’d prayed for about a month before the full healing was realized, freeing the individual from chronic congestion and coughing – the lingering effects, the patient told me, of an illness experienced about a year ago.

In a second case, there was a lovely healing of what a patient felt might have been an early symptom of the virus. We prayed together for about ten or eleven days, and freedom came.

In the third case, I was called one morning by someone who awoke that day unable to see normally and was not able to read. While praying, at one point it came to me, “this is not a long, hard slog. It’s only a momentary misreading of the power and goodness of infinite Love. Mind’s undimmed sight is not miraculous, but is divinely natural.” After further prayer, when evening came the patient called with much joy to report that vision and the ability to read had returned.

I’m so grateful for these healings and for the encouragement they bring in regard to other cases, as well.

Yesterday we had a five-hour windstorm in our area. The strength of the wind was alarming. I felt a strong need to work throughout the day and turned to the first portion of Mrs. Eddy’s definition of wind: “That which indicates the might of omnipotence and the movements of God’s spiritual government, encompassing all things” (SH 597:27-29). I prayed to see that what we really have (and everyone has) is the movement of God’s encompassing love reaching to every corner of His universe. When the wind finally calmed down only a few small loose branch-lets had fallen from our trees into the street. A number of trees in our town were felled by the wind, but there were no reports of any one being hurt.