Stomach pain healed

For several days I would suffer from acute stomach pain whenever I had something to eat. It didn’t matter what I’d eaten. I had been stressed about a challenging situation and thought it was perhaps just a stress reaction, but I realized that looking for a cause for something erroneous, something not created by God, was not the way to go.

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures explains: “Because Truth is infinite, error should be known as nothing. Because Truth is omnipotent in goodness, error, Truth’s opposite, has no might” (Mary Baker Eddy,p. 367). I reasoned that this erroneous condition could have nothing to stand on and that since Truth, God, is all-powerful, error (anything unlike God) could not have any say at all about my being.

The pain persisted, however, so I called a Christian Science practitioner, who immediately went to work praying. In a short time I felt relief, and further proof of the healing came the next morning after eating breakfast, when I had no pain or discomfort whatsoever. I have been free of that ailment in the more than a year and a half since. And the feeling of intense stress fell away, too.

The practitioner was aware that I had been rereading Mary Baker Eddy: Christian Healer, Amplified Edition, by Yvonne Caché von Fettweis and Robert Townsend Warneck, and when I called to thank him for his effective work, he suggested I look at a couple of references to stomach issues in that book.

On page 172 it says that on her daily carriage ride, Mrs. Eddy sometimes stopped at the Western Union office to send a telegram. The office manager, Henry Morrison, usually came out to her carriage. On one occasion Mrs. Eddy “asked if he was ‘feeling as well as usual.’ He told her of a chronic stomach problem. After their conversation he never again had trouble with his stomach, nor with severe colds, which he had been subject to.” The healing was quick and final.

Later in the same book, a letter is included in which Mrs. Eddy wrote to a student regarding praying about a stomach issue. It says in part: “. . . a stomach is not talking, arguing, feeling, and suffering. As a man you are occupied with a great demand on your time and talents. Now go to work full of business to do good, and have full confidence in God that all the good [He] wishes you to do you can do.

“. . . stick to the statement of Truth, and declare on the right side. . .” (pp. 392, 393).

I read these and other passages after I had my healing, and I found them very fortifying in sealing the healing permanently! Indeed, John 8:32 sums up my experience: “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

I am so very grateful to God for Mrs. Eddy’s discovery of Christian Science and for the noble men and women dedicating their lives to the practice of this great healing Science.