Chronic pain healed through prayer

What greatness it is that God, divine Love, tenderly removes all our fears. Through the years, I have learned not to fear challenges, because they have forced me to think more scientifically, more absolutely, in order to bring my thoughts in line with the spiritual truths of being as found in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

Reading Science and Health has improved my understanding that on every occasion we are protected under divine Love’s umbrella. This book has helped me overcome challenges, and it has truly strengthened my reasoning ability.

Some time ago, I was some distance from my home in Suna-Migori, Kenya, because I had gone to seek employment elsewhere. While I was away, I developed an illness, the cause of which could not be determined by the doctors. Before I left my home to find employment, I was a member of First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Suna-Migori.

While I was away, I was not practicing Christian Science, although I read Science and Health occasionally, and sometimes I remembered some of the healing messages I had read in the past and understood from the book. I knew that people got healings of various diseases and problems.

While I was ill, since I was not yet ready to understand God’s good work, I accepted the advice of a friend who suggested I seek medical intervention. This advice was good, but it was not the solution. Divine Love proved to be the best intervention.

Before I discovered this, I woke up one morning and marched to the hospital. At the hospital, the doctor in charge attended to me. I told him that I was experiencing severe pains in the legs and chest. The pains would not allow me to eat. The doctor listened to me for some time and then prescribed medication for me.

I left the hospital and went to my apartment with the drugs I had received. I spent much money on medication, hoping that the illness would be cured. I also visited private hospitals, and even a mission hospital, but I never got healed. During this period of illness, I was so far away from my church, and I wasn’t able to seek the help of a Christian Science practitioner. There was poor communication in that area, no phones, a poor road network, and the distances were very long.

The cost of the medical treatment ruined my financial stability. I had no more money to spend, not even a little for paying house rent. This state of financial constraint made me shift my base.

I returned to Suna-Migori, and there I resumed going to church since I could walk the short distance. I dedicated myself to concentrating on prayer. I shared with my longtime friends in the church a few of the problems I was having, and most of them offered me prayers, while others encouraged me to read Science and Health.

As I continued reading this book, it reminded me that disease is error, whose author is mortal mind, not divine Mind (God).

The book further told me that “we sustain Truth, not by accepting, but by rejecting a lie.” At this point, I came to learn that there was not a solution in medicine, but there was one in Love.

I read Science and Health repeatedly and prayed ceaselessly until God brought peace to my body. A transformation took place in my thought. Before, I was believing that medicine would heal me, but instead I realized that the only way to healing is through understanding the omnipotence and omnipresence of God as the absolute of well-being.

I prayed silently and also said the Lord’s Prayer all the time, putting all my thought to God, understanding that my real identity is only as God’s likeness. Therefore, God, divine Love, was not the source of my suffering. And the strange illness was healed completely. My reliance on material medicine was replaced by an understanding of spiritual healing.

Mrs. Eddy’s teachings in Science and Health helped me overcome mortal mind. By this means, the illness was removed. This was certainly the work of God. Mind led me in working it out through prayer.

Patience, compassion, and an understanding of God as the source of all good led me to this healing. This transformation in my thinking didn’t happen overnight, but divine Mind’s presence was realized at the hour of need.

Since then, keeping my consciousness pure and Christlike continues, as it must for all of us. This has been a valuable lesson for me. It taught me the importance of turning confidently to God, Spirit, at all times.

David Senaji Angunza lives in Suna-Migori, Kenya.

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