“I was able to see more clearly the everlasting perfection of the divine and how the human patterns this reality”

1. I feel more of a trust in turning to God and an understanding of our whole self which includes all right ideas as the perfect idea of perfect God in various situations. This viewpoint is the truth we can turn to as reality irrespective of the human situations, which protects, adjusts, and heals. I also found that I have more readily cleared my thought and known the truth regarding friends, neighbors, and passersby.

2. Throughout the book there are strong accounts and affirmations of the perfection of God and man and man in the image and likeness of God. The simplicity and strength of these statements and understanding of these truths stood out to me as very important in these significant healings.

One of my favorite healings is an account by Marta Gehring where she states, “It taught me to live, to love, and to be grateful, … When my thoughts had become clearer and purer, when false thinking had given place to right thinking, then also my body was made clean.…I confidently asked the practitioner for help.…In the afternoon the pain ceased; and then something wonderful happened: parts in my body changed their position without causing me pain. With surprise, but also with relief, I perceived the divine operation.” (p. 78) I was impressed by her simple and strong trust in the treatment and the significance of this healing by divine operation. I was able to see and feel more clearly the everlasting perfection of the divine and how the human always patterns this reality. I saw and felt more clearly how we are the complete reflection of perfect God, always present and in operation. 

My other favorite account was by Mrs. J. W. Robbins and John W. Robbins of their son who was healed of illnesses and long-term spinal trouble. The account states, “In three weeks he was not only free from the bronchial and rheumatic trouble, but also from the spinal trouble. The braces worn for over ten years were taken off, and the boy was well. In spite of the unusually severe weather of that spring, he had no trouble of a bronchial nature and was absent from school only two days, whereas he had previously lost more than half his schooling. Last fall he walked nearly five miles to and from school and even essayed to play ‘Rugby’.” (p. 65) It also states, “During the past year he has grown stronger, straighter, and added between one and two inches to his height. …He engages in all boyish sports ...” (p. 64) I was impressed by the trust and complete understanding of the practitioner and his family that he was the perfect idea of perfect God with no accompanying ifs or whys, and by the expectancy of all that is good, right, and free. It was a complete healing of the young boy expressing his natural and original state and self of freedom in health, activity, and life.

3. One healing I thought about recently was when I had a rash on my back just prior to beginning my study in Christian Science. I thought about our true identity as the expression of the Christ, which includes no illness or disease, and that the more I embodied and expressed the Christ, the less this condition would seem real or a part of my identity. As I grew in my understanding and demonstration of my true self and the expression of these Christ qualities, the rash disappeared.

4. I am going to turn more trustingly to Truth with expectancy of protection and healing. I am going to understand more of this truth for others, including general prayer for friends, neighbors, and our community. I am also going to share these ideas about prayer and healing with more trust and inner clarity of the simplicity and certainty of these truths of perfect God and perfect man that heals always.