You may have heard about an experience of mine when I was planning to visit Mrs. Eddy‘s former home in Lynn, Massachusetts not long ago. I‘d never visited any of our Leader‘s former homes before and hadn‘t really had any desire to. I felt closer to my Leader through following her teachings, than through trying to follow any of her human footsteps. But it is important to preserve the accurate history of our Leader. And there was a special tour of some of Mrs. Eddy‘s homes that summer. I made up my mind to visit, but I gave myself one condition to be worthy to visit this home. Mrs. Eddy had taught a number of her classes in this Lynn home and in all of them she had ordered her students to go out and heal someone after she had introduced Christian Science in the class. My feeling was that the only way it would be proper for me to visit this home was to obey our Leader‘s demand to go heal someone. And it wasn‘t fair for one of my existing patients to call me for a healing. It had to be someone locally that I didn‘t know.

 

     I prayed, affirming that the perfection of God was ever-present and ever-operative and that His law or divine Science governs every aspect of being. Everyone exists in God, does His will, expresses all His qualities and can‘t have any life, will or activity separate from Him. But even with this prayer, no local healing opportunities came my way before I got on the train from Boston to Lynn. I had no idea how long the train ride was supposed to take, but we made a couple of quick stops soon after leaving the Boston station and a young couple came in and sat next to me. The husband‘s face was sunburned and he had on sunglasses. I laughed because the previous days there had been a huge rain storm and I asked good-naturedly where he‘d been able to find enough sun in Massachusetts to get such a sunburn! He and his wife laughed too, but then explained that he‘d just recently gotten out of the hospital. A month or two before, they‘d been walking at night in their neighborhood and some kids had come out of the shadows and beaten the man in the head with baseball bats until they had broken many bones in his head. Taking off his glasses, he explained that his one eye had been so badly damaged it could no longer remain stationary in its socket, but rolled around uncontrollably — which I could see.

 

     Immediately I felt horrible about joking with him. Expressing my deep sympathy, I asked if I could pray for him. He and his wife were deeply touched with such a request by a stranger and they gladly assented. I immediately insisted in silent prayer that this evil had never happened and that he was as perfect as God, who made him. This thought took a millisecond. The very next millisecond, the conductor announced the train was stopping in Lynn — my destination! I hadn‘t realized it was so close! I had no time to say anything. I immediately got my luggage together and ran to the exit not to miss the stop. Right after I stepped off the train, it started to pull out of the station. I turned back to wave goodbye to the man and his wife — and noticed with awe and joy that all the red on his face was completely gone and that the eye that had been rolling around in the socket a minute ago was looking straight at me, without any motion! I praised God with my whole heart and thought now I‘d earned the right to see Mrs. Eddy‘s home.

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     This was one of the quickest healings I‘ve witnessed in my healing practice. It was also one of the simplest. I felt like I almost did nothing. It was just a millisecond recognition that God had already done His work and that His perfect work can never be undone. But it‘s important to remember that healing may be with words, but it‘s never IN words. We need to honestly be trying to live what we know of Christian Science and be faithful to it. All our heart‘s desire to follow our Leader as she follows Christ is involved as well. But even more important than all these things is the recognition that healing is never self-generated or the action of the human mind. ―It is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. [Phil. 2:13] Our efforts to heal from the absolute basis of Christian Science is literally God healing the case through us and this healing work has the full weight and authority of His omnipotence behind it. SO EVERYONE CAN HEAL LIKE THIS! It‘s the same God that heals through everyone‘s practice, as long as they‘re recognizing the absolute truth of perfect God and perfect man and seeking to honestly apply it in their lives.

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