Skin growth healed

For many years I’d noticed a small dry spot on my lower shin. But as it wasn’t painful and wasn’t noticeable to anyone else, I didn’t give it another thought. Then a couple of years ago, two women I work with teaching sewing told me about similar spots on their skin that had darkened. Both had these spots surgically removed.

While these two women were keeping us all informed on their progress, I noticed one day that the spot on my shin had become much larger and darkened. I remember thinking at the time that I’d better get serious and pray about this. I knew what my colleagues had been through, and I knew that taking a medical course of action was not my choice. I’d been brought up in Christian Science from a very young age, and had learned to rely completely on God in any situation. And I wanted to depend on God’s healing power with this challenge also. I was convinced that God is Love, impartial and universal, and that therefore Love is All.

Specifically, I prayed to understand more fully something I’d been taught in Christian Science—that man, meaning all of us, is a child of God, who is wholly good, and that therefore we are His image, as stated in the first chapter of Genesis in the Bible. I knew that God is Spirit. Therefore as His likeness, I, too, was spiritual—made up of His ideas, which can never be less than perfect.

During this time I was doing some extra studying of the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy, and one of the things I was particularly becoming aware of was the idea that matter is nothing while Spirit is All. I prayed to understand better how this related to my situation. Then I came across this passage in Science and Health: “Because matter has no consciousness or Ego, it cannot act; its conditions are illusions, and these false conditions are the source of all seeming sickness. Admit the existence of matter, and you admit that mortality (and therefore disease) has a foundation in fact. Deny the existence of matter, and you can destroy the belief in material conditions” (Science and Health, p. 368). I felt as if I suddenly understood that matter—this physical body—really is nothing. It certainly couldn’t make any conditions for God, and therefore it couldn’t affect even one of His indestructible sons or daughters. And that included me.

The whole issue suddenly seemed logical and clear to me, and I felt free of fear and “what if” thoughts. In fact, I felt that my thought had been lifted far above the problem. I was totally at peace about the situation.

The very next day, I noticed that the spot had dried, and begun to fall away. A week later, there wasn’t a trace left—every little bit had just brushed off. I was in awe of the simplicity of this healing. Jesus said, “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32). To me, knowing the truth is knowing that spiritual perfection is all there can ever be.

This happened about two years ago, and the condition has never returned. I’m so grateful for this healing, and I hope that by telling about it I can help someone else.

Rose Monk | Otaki, New Zealand