Seeing what is already true

Here is a wonderful healing from this past fall. As I was preparing for a very busy season with my business, my forehead started to hurt in a way that was very distracting. This claim dragged on for more than a week, and I called a practitioner to pray with me. The practitioner encouraged me to watch my thought by mentally saying, “Get thee hence, Satan,” anytime a claim of pain tried to distract me. I realized I needed to do that instead of probing my forehead for pain.

On Wednesday, a testimony at church helped to break the mesmerism of fear. The testifier mentioned a statement I didn’t remember ever reading in Science and Health: “Principle is not to be found in fragmentary ideas” (p. 302:1). The testifier also mentioned how an article called “Man Is a Unit” by Paul Stark Seeley connected to Mrs. Eddy’s statement (Sentinel, August 21, 1943). Then another person gave a testimony telling how she’d had a healing after reading that article. I felt very inspired and read the article the next morning.

That day I felt so much freer in my thought—the cloud of worry that had been hovering for more than a week disappeared. I felt joyful again as I worked on a project with a friend. I wasn’t tempted to touch my forehead at all that day. When I washed my face that night, I noticed it was still tender, but I knew that healing had already occurred in thought. I felt happy the next day, too, and the physical claim started to lift and then vanished over the next day or two.

I am very grateful for this healing! One additional aspect of this healing was that I learned that Christian Science is a science or knowledge of the way things are, not a healing approach that may or may not work. I am not making something true but rather seeing what is already true.