"...God is speaking to her in the way she can understand"

I wanted to share with you a healing that occurred last fall with my daughter. My daughter is not a Christian Scientist and doesn’t want anything to do with it. Then one weekend in September, she and her boyfriend went to visit her grandfather, aunt and cousin. Then I got a call from my sister that my daughter was at the emergency room. She had a terrible headache, had lost feeling in her limbs, lost consciousness, and couldn’t talk.

After some panicked conversations, waiting and prayer, we got word that she had returned to normal. The CT scan didn’t show a stroke or tumor, which they were concerned about. They surmised that because she had a sinus infection, there was just an unusual buildup of pressure in her brain. But they did note she had a brain cyst, which is supposedly a rare birth abnormality you can live with, without incident – or it can grow suddenly and cause serious problems. Sometimes they can remove it; sometimes it is inoperable and fatal. They said that if any of the symptoms returned, she should go to a neurosurgeon and get an MRI.

She went back to school and began to have almost daily headaches, losing consciousness and having memory problems. She scheduled an appointment, but through a series of insurance and doctor delays, we had several weeks to pray about this. We learned so many things through this time, all the while hearing from her that the symptoms were continuing and disrupting her studies. Below are some of the notes I took during this experience. As you will see, one of my worries was that because she didn’t want anything to do with Christian Science, our prayers might not be enough to help her. She did not ask for prayer or want any CS talk; however, during a couple of particularly dark moments, I shared a few Bible verses that she said helped strengthen her.

A few of my notes: God is more powerful than a flimsy belief, a mere dream. I am awake. My daughter is awake. The world is awake. This is NOT happening. That’s not denial, but a refusal to be fooled about my child. I am defending her purity, innocence, joy, freedom, power, dominion, spirituality, perfection, her complete protection and connection to her Father and Mother – not us, but God. He is speaking to her in exactly the way she can understand, just as He does to my husband and me. She is in a full, loving, unending, vibrant relationship with her Father-Mother. She doesn’t need an interpreter. She is manifesting His perfection, love, progress, intelligence, memory, joy, freedom NOW. Truth removes properly whatever is offensive. (Truth, not me.) Truth is unchanging. Truth is all, and ever-present. Truth is omnipotent and irresistible. The illusion has no power. This is a spiritual universe. My daughter is spiritual. 

The headaches and losing consciousness persisted; not being impressed by that took unceasing work. Finally, she got her referral and then the appointment for the MRI, which they hoped would show the cyst in more detail. Preceding and during the MRI, I held onto the Bible verse, “Every good gift and every perfect gift (my daughter) is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.” I held on to the idea that there is no shadow, no variableness in this child. “He that formed thee”… formed her. Imaging: she is the image of Mind, Love, Life, Spirit, Soul, Truth. An image is an exact likeness. Nothing can get in between Mind and its manifestation. Nothing can be seen but God.

The symptoms lifted over the next few days while she waited to meet with the doctor…who told her that the MRI showed absolutely nothing. He compared the results of the CT scan with the MRI and couldn’t explain the change. She called us with great joy. She said she knew we were praying. At our very joyful Thanksgiving, we introduced her to the practitioner who had helped us and she thanked her sincerely. No, she is not becoming a church member any time soon, but that wasn’t the object of the prayer. What I realized is that God is speaking to her in the way she can understand. And this is true for every one of us.