Christian Science Canberra   Promoting Health, Wellbeing and Spiritual Healing in a Scientific World

On Thursday 19 November a Thanksgiving Service was held by the members of the Christian Science Church in Canberra.  Many in the congregation gave thanks for the good in their lives:

Gratitude always comes to mind when moving in nature and having close contact with the animal kingdom as there is a certain sense of a universal language of good.

At the moment we are enjoying two horses grazing our paddocks.  Last autumn one of them hobbled around on three legs and seemed to be in pain.  I spoke to the owner, someone who informed me that she could not afford a vet and could not do anything for the horse.  The condition worsened and the leg became very swollen and the horse lost all ability to move around.

When I became aware of this situation early one morning, I felt very alarmed, then went into the house to pray until I saw the right idea of horse. By this I mean that I cleared my consciousness of all that my physical senses were telling me about the situation and instead affirmed the true nature of a horse being foremost a spiritual idea held in a state of perfection within the thought of infinite Mind or God. I spent the next few hours in study of the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy and regained a clearer conviction of the eternal Truth that:  God saw every thing that he had made, and behold, it was very good (Gen 1: 31).

I also felt the need to pray about home and harmony and became totally absorbed in this Truth of an infinite Love caring for the whole of the universe.  The sense that every idea was cared for replaced the dismay I had felt about the sight of this innocent creature.

In the evening both horses were grazing next to each other, the leg soon took on a normal appearance and there was no further difficulty.  Several people commented about this surprising change.

This testimony was submitted by CN of Canberra.