Ear infection healed

When I was very young, I remember having a physical healing of an ear infection through prayer alone. I don’t remember exactly how old I was but I think somewhere between about first and third grade in school when this happened.

My dear mother was just learning about Christian Science. She had been raised a Catholic and become interested in Christian Science when she married my father, who had been raised in it.

I know she must have been very afraid for me when I had this painful ear infection. I remember lying in bed in great pain and just moving my head back and forth in constant motion making noise. I remember feeling my mother’s love for me as she sat beside my bed and talked with me. I remember her reading things to me from an inspirational magazine put out by the Christian Science Publishing Society, that had thoughts about God and experiences of healing the people related.

I’m sure the reading was helping to get her thought on God and quiet her fear. It also helped to get me thinking about God and His goodness and love for me. This was a special prayer time together we had with God. I remember feeling great trust in God, and felt that God loved me and would take care of me.

I don’t remember being in this extremely painful condition for too long, maybe a half hour or hour, from the best that I can recall, but I remember at one point my ear just drained and all the pain went away.

That had to be a huge relief to my mother who was really just learning to put her faith in God in this way. I don’t remember ever having ear aches like that again. This was one of those early experiences that began building my faith in a loving God, always taking care of me. Of course, God has this same care for all of His or Her children.