Severe headache healed on a road trip

I’d like to share one of the many healings I’ve experienced over the past 30 years; this happened a few years ago. I was on my way to Houston, Texas, with a fellow truck driver (we are team drivers for a national carrier). We were on a run that took us to Houston and back to Chicago, then to Phoenix and back in one week, then to Sacramento and back the next week.

Our task was to get to our destinations on time for the customers’ sake. My fellow driver started the drive for the first ten hours, then I picked up the next ten hours, and then we switched. When it was my turn to drive one time, I felt a headache coming on. It was the kind of headache that seemed to get worse and worse, upsetting my stomach and making me feel very weak and nauseous. Well, I had to pull over to the shoulder of the road, soon after I’d started to drive. The other driver asked what was wrong. So I told him what the problem was, and he asked if he could help in any way. We agreed that he would drive, and I would go back in the sleeper compartment and pray for healing. I carry my Science and Health and the Bible with me and read the Christian Science Bible Lesson every day.

I was having a hard time confronting the pain and nausea, and the mental suggestion came that maybe I should try to wait it out. But I knew that would delay our trip and cause problems for everyone. Then, something told me to turn to page 475 in Science and Health where I read this: “Man is spiritual and perfect; and because he is spiritual and perfect, he must be so understood in Christian Science. Man is idea, the image, of Love; he is not physique” (Science and Health, p. 475). Here’s what I was thinking after I read that sentence. Because “man is idea, the image, of Love; he is not physique,” how could I, as God’s idea, feel pain? I recognized that my body had no power of its own to complain, so I knew it was an error, or a mistaken belief, that was trying to convince me I was suffering. God had never made anything unlike Himself. There couldn’t be any power contrary to divine Love. And so love was all I could feel.

After reading the complete definition of man (see Science and Health, pp. 475–477) and praying with those lines, I suddenly realized my headache was gone, along with my upset stomach. In just a few minutes, I was able to return to my driving duties and complete our trip with no more problems. After my trip, I learned that as a small child, I’d had those kinds of headaches and they would keep me home from school from time to time. But I affirmed that I didn’t have to keep any false pictures about a history of suffering in my thought, no matter where they came from.

I’ve had so many healings over the years since I’ve been a Christian Scientist and have gone though Christian Science Primary class instruction.

I’m so grateful that my wife of 32 years shared her understanding of this way of life with me. We met when we where living in the same building, and talked a few times about our beliefs. She changed my life when she first gave me a book titled Unity of Good, by Mary Baker Eddy. Reading that book led to more and more questions, and more and more spiritual answers. Now I try to live those ideas each day of my life.

Arthur V. Jimenez | Schererville, Indiana, US