I made a new friend who visited my church Sunday with family and shared with me an inspiring story of healing.
Several months ago, she was being treated by doctors for a serious health problem. An angiogram into her brain caused a series of severe health problems for this woman, including three strokes, paralysis of her face and front part of her body, and bleeding on the brain. Her case became so severe that the doctors lost all hope of saving her and predicted she would pass on in a day or so. They gave up and quit trying to help her medically.
This woman comes from a close knit family, several of whom practice Christian Science to varying degrees. They were notified and immediately began praying for their dear one the best they knew how. She was in a coma at this point.
She did not die, but continued to live, defying all the doctor’s expectations. She came out of her coma, regained her mobility, was restored to strength and fully recovered.
She stood before me beaming with joy and love as she told her story.
She explained that she did not understand how the recovery was happening, but knew something very spiritual was occuring in her life.
She recounted that during this recovery, she experienced a mass purging of darkness from her thinking. She said that all kinds of hate, resentment, and fear from decades of her past melted away. It was an incredible transformation, she impressed me with. She became a whole new person from the inside out, she stated. All the darkness vanished, and she couldn’t even identify with it anymore.
As she told me about this transformation, a brother-in-law standing nearby pointed at her and said, “You can see it in her face. She never used to look like this.” And she was glowing with joy, love and purity, as she talked to me.
She said that after getting out of the hospital and thinking it all through, she could then see that she had a spiritual healing. The evil inside was wiped out, and the body was freed.
Even to this day, the doctors are befuddled and can’t figure out what happened.
And we agreed, the doctors haven’t figured it out yet, because they’re looking into matter for an answer, and the answer can only be found in thought where the real improvement occurred first.
Glory be to God in the highest! Prayer heals. Never give up! There’s always hope, no matter what the doctors say.
Love is the most powerful healer in the world.
Thank you Evan for sharing this inspiring story….it really served to uplift my thought today and turn it toward God, infinite good.
Linda J.
I think this shows that people can experience healing through Christian Science even when they are under a doctor’s care. Mrs. Eddy healed many with doctors sometimes standing right there! I think it is sad when Practioners refuse to talk to or pray for/with people who turn to CS for help eventhough those people are seeing a Doctor or are talking some medication.
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I think it’s also helpful to understand though, that the doctors had given up on this woman. They mentally released her from their thought and attention which made it much easier for spiritual truth to reach her. Her thought was not glued to the doctor’s prescriptions anymore. It was open to other options, and she readily responded.
Thanks for the inspiring story, Evan.
I think its always been a major strength of CS to give hope and healing when there is none, when the medical profession has given up. Again I’d recommend my book which, at p. 141f, talks about this as being a feature of the early CS movement. Of course the medical profession was different then (perhaps).
I can certainly see a starring role for CS in collaborating with the medical profession rather than continuing to take an adversarial position of being opposed to their approach. Many American medicos are committed to spirituality and healing too.
Thank you for sharing this powerful and inspiring demonstration of Christian Science in action. God’s all-power cannot be denied.
And I imagine any half way Scientist, mobilized into action to pray, will not be quite the same either!