Witnessing “healing today, despite the noisy worldly assertions to the contrary”

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An experience last year taught me a practical lesson in Christian Science healing. I realise more and more that my role in healing is to bear faithful witness to the healing activity of the Christ and to demonstrate the omnipotence of God; to “break away from the constant, noisy assertions and assumptions of worldly materialism,” to get quiet and still, and to learn “more of the All-God who is Love,” as you wrote in the Topic letter for 2010.
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“Membership in the ‘mutual aid society’ of which Mrs. Eddy spoke”

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It is a joy to claim membership in the “mutual aid society” of which Mrs. Eddy spoke. I think back to an incident when I was going through Class: At lunch one day, a fellow classmate started choking and was unable to breathe. He got up and walked away from the table in a fearful state. I went to him with trust in the lessons we had learned that day and with dear love for him as my “brother.” The obstruction came forth and there was a sense of calm. No physical effort was made to remove the obstruction, but like the “east winds,” it could have no effect.
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“Choose ye!”

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Two weeks ago I was asked if I would be willing to conduct a workshop on the subject of “Choose you this day whom ye will serve” (Joshua 24:15) for an organization that provides nursing care for Christian Scientists. I needed to give an answer by Friday, so the thought came that I’d better stay home from church and see how far I could get on an outline for the workshop, to see if it was feasible. Choose ye!!!
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“Love and Mind had done all the working, knowing, running, finding, and returning for me.”

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The fruitage on the Association website is so very helpful. It’s like a hearty meal to a starving man. One of the accounts brought back a healing that I’m moved to share. I’m touched every time I recall it.

A few years ago, I was doing a design project in New York City. I had spent the entire day with a client looking at and photographing furniture for her home. Late in the evening, a cab dropped me off at the back door of the hotel where there was no doorman. As the cab sped off, I realized I had left my camera in the cab. That camera seemed to contain a record of everything we had done that day and everything we were going to discuss the next day.

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"All of the accounts put together paint the picture of a 'reality-based community' "

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Recently my husband had what seemed to be flu. We prayed and he had a decisive healing which included some wonderful healing thoughts and new impetus for his business. But then my daughter seemed to have the same problem. Again we prayed and there was a decisive healing. We were very grateful. This particular belief is one that has been vivid to me in the past, and I needed to pray about fear of contagion. It seems like every prayer recently ends up in the same place: that God is Mind and there is no other mind. This prayer ended up there too, with the reassurance that I didn’t need to be afraid of mortal mind or belief because of divine Mind’s allness.
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“Each time whatever was most feared would not come to pass.”

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My Mom was in the hospital for six months. Surgery went wrong. Picture alarming. I believe she thought the claim of disease was too big to handle through prayer. I did not dwell on the why. It should have been an in and out surgery. It wasn’t.

My starting point was that Mom loves Science, and she had taught me to pray and she loves the simplicity of the Truth, so I knew she would expect me to turn to Science.

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Comments on Chain of Healings

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I am so grateful for this email.   Our Association, and the healings that have been powerfully shared by my fellow Association mates, have provided me with such a comforting sense of spiritual linkage that has blessed, buoyed and healed.

I LOVED how the writer of this most recent fruitage refers to the healings being connected in a “chain of light”.  The imagery of the strength of spiritual links emblazoned by divine, healing light is powerful.

Thank you for sharing this most precious “New Year” gift.

In our church there has been talk of the need for more  “fellowship”, and the consideration of having “coffees” after services to accommodate this need.  How grateful I was to read in this new fruitage, “It’s hard to imagine a more satisfying form of Christian fellowship than being witness to the Christ.”   I feel renewed in my efforts to pray about this situation.

Thank you for sharing your continual teaching and nurturing Skip, I am deeply grateful.

Debbie Gipson, 1993