Swelling and Rash Healed

We had a Roundtable a couple of weeks ago that was entitled “Refuse to Consent.” I thought that was such good wisdom. It was also a couple of weeks ago that I woke up one morning with a very swollen face, and the beginning of a rash on my arm. It not only looked very disconcerting, but it itched, and felt terrible. I found myself thinking, where did this come from? Soon thereafter I was reminded that none of God’s creation, animal or vegetable, is capable of harming any other of God’s creatures. That was exactly what I needed. I had been looking for a cause, and by doing so, giving this thing some reality.

In Christian Science we learn that the only reality there is, is good. Discords are not real but are illusions. This was just a very aggressive illusion trying to tell me that there is a power other than God, and trying to distract me from doing what God wants me to do. That helped straighten out my thinking right away. So, I repeated this to myself quietly for quite some time, that none of God’s creation could harm any other of God’s creation, and there isn’t anything outside of God’s creation because God is all. I am part of God’s perfect creation and therefore subject only to good.

I worked with that and it was quite remarkable that the itching stopped and I soon got back to work doing what God had for me to do that day. I’m grateful to say that it was very quickly after that that the swelling went down, the rash went away, and during that time I was not worrying or fretting about where this thing came from, knowing that it was an illusion in the first place. It was not anything that God condoned or created. I’m very grateful for Mary Baker Eddy for discovering the Science of Christianity, and giving us a textbook that explains very clearly what is true and what is false and how to never consent to anything that is not Godlike.