I received the below account from a reader, and asked permission to share it with you.
A must read…
Here’s a sweet testimony I heard at Wednesday night testimony meeting.
Three young children had a kitten. Their garage door was defective and one day crashed down on the kitten. The evidence said, “This cat is dead.” The mother called a practitioner, and he asked the children to declare, “God is the only Life,” every time they thought about the kitten. They placed the kitty in a shoe box with a warm blanket. Every time any one of them thought about the kitty, they obediently insisted, “God is the only Life!”
When their father, who is not a Christian Scientist, came home, he declared, “This cat is dead.” When they would not agree, he took her to the vet, and he declared, “This cat is dead.”
On the way home, the father heard the cat sneeze and took her back to the vet who said it was a phenomenon that sometimes happened, but nevertheless, “This cat is dead.” The cat sneezed again several times in a row, but when the father checked her, the evidence said, “This cat is dead.”
When he got home, the children insisted on keeping the cat in the box in the garage no matter what anybody said. They were still declaring, “God is the only Life.”
The morning of the third day, as they were having breakfast, they heard some loud mewing coming from the garage. When they opened the door, the cat came bounding into the kitchen perfectly well and strong.
The testifier said that she and her brothers had so lost sight of the furry evidence and were so filled with the truth they had been declaring that they SAW THE TRUTH THEY WERE CONSCIOUS OF. The cat did not have to get better. Their declarations for LIFE demonstrated LIFE never born, never dying, never hurt, never recuperating.
I reminded myself after hearing this story that God is our very own Mind. We can be conscious of Truth alone if God is our Mind, therefore we MUST SEE this Truth evidenced in our lives.
thank you, Evan. It inspires me to hold to the truths I am yearning to see in my experience and stay with it until the truth is manifested. And not get discouraged by the physical evidence!
what if the father said, that cat is pink. Would it have that same solemn authority? As I too yearn to see Truth evidenced in my experience, this really helps me see not to believe the solemnly declared verdict, but to hold to the Truth.
thank you!
I heard of a lady who insisted that her puppy was not dead and kept it in a box for weeks, waiting for it to rise as the story above. It never came back to life, but the whole neighborhood learned about this “crazy” Christian Scientist!
To anon,
Well, holding a dead puppy in a box for weeks does stretch the limits of credulity! but in no way diminishes the wonderful experience the above family had.
If there’s no life in matter, why would we want to put life back into matter anyway?
To above,
Life was not put back into matter. It never was there to begin with. However, people thought life had been in matter and had been crushed out of it, which manifested itself as the accident scenario. Once the belief of accident was healed, evidence of the nearer right truth, of life not being crushed out of matter, was evidenced as an alive kitty.
The kitty was a spiritual idea in Mind all along. But that truth needed to be better understood.