What healing can look like

Healing is an inside job.

And that’s good news, because that’s where you want healing to begin. Often it is deep within, meeting a need we may not even be aware of. Yet it always changes us. Makes us better, stronger, more certain of Love’s all time care.

Healing isn’t always physical. It can include character transformation. Never restrict the concept of healing to the physical. It shows up in a million different ways.

Often it may feel a bit intangible, not like what the everyday world would consider. It starts in thought and shows in our lives, in, oh so many ways!

Healing can be a release from fears. Some recent fears, some long-standing.

Healing can be a comforted sense that all is well, and will be well.

Healing can be a more secure confidence in health, strength, or over-all well being.

Healing can be our gentler nature expressed more consistently with those we love.

Healing simply means wholeness, or harmony, – its basis is holiness. We find healing more naturally when our thoughts are God-centered, not matter-centered. As we discover more of God, good: we discover more of health, harmony.

Healing can happen on an airplane. Or in the car, or at a ball game. I’ve had healings in all those places.

Once I boarded a plane, having been very ill all night. I needed to get to a meeting in Texas. I felt very unwell, and wondered how I would feel at the end of the flight. But I opened Science and Health, read one sentence, put my head on the book and thought about what I had read. I did that for about an hour or so, and soon realized I could drink water, and sit up more and more. By the end of the flight, I was absolutely fine, and able to meet my hosts with perfect ease. Was I thrilled? You bet! And so very grateful to God for the provision of Truth in that book that healed me. I still love remembering that.

One evening I injured my ankle severely by running into the side of a desk. Again, I was to board a plane the next morning to attend our son’s law school graduation. The pain was almost unbearable, and I had visions of being in a wheelchair for the day. As I lay in bed that night, I considered the ideas in Science and Health, one of which assured me that, “Accidents are unknown to God, or immortal Mind, and we must leave the mortal basis of belief and unite with the one Mind, in order to change the notion of chance to the proper sense of Go’s unerring direction and thus bring out harmony.” (424) That seemed so hard to do since the pain was intense. But I trusted that guidance more than the pain and continued to pray by simply, steadily affirming that God’s love provided my care. In the middle of the night, some ideas came as to how I might place my foot on the ground. I found I could do it with very little discomfort. Soon one more step, and another. The swelling went down considerably, and by morning I could pack and put on shoes and walk normally to the plane completely without any pain or discomfort. Mid-morning at the graduation, there was no graduate there happier than me!

Simple healings like these are available to anyone when we learn we can exchange fear of matter for trust in God, Spirit, Love. Christian Science gives us tools and confidence. It is so best!

Any healings you’d like to share??