Hey friends, thanks for tuning in to the Christian Science Daily Lift.

Joining us today is Christian Science practitioner and teacher, Medora Kibby.

She's from New York, New York.

In my freshman year of college, I noticed a small bump on one of my fingers.

At first, I thought it was just some sort of cut that was healing slowly.

Then it became sore and red and soon covered the whole knuckle. People began to notice it and expressed concern. They told me I had better do something about it because it could be serious. I assured them I was doing something. I continued to pray as I had

learned to do in Christian science, but I must admit at that point I was praying merely to get rid of

the problem, and my prayers didn't seem very effective.

Then, I decided to read the Christian Science textbook,

Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures,

by Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered Christian science.

This book is all about healing.

The basis of Christian science

is the allness of God,

who is also known as spirit,

and the nothingness of matter or physicality.

As I read the book, a marvelous thing happened.

I found myself thinking less and less about the issue on my hand

and more and more about my relationship to God.

I had never read science and health cover to cover. I had read it piecemeal, read passages from

the weekly Bible lessons outlined in the Christian Science Quarterly,

and opened to passages that comforted and healed me,

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