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With Jesus' healings very often he
addresses a person as "Man, thy sins be forgiven thee,' or' Woman, thy faith
hath made thee whole,' but there are several cases where the individual is
addressed as Son or Daughter. There is a difference between man and son, or
woman and daughter. In the story of the woman with the hemorrhage he addressed
her as Daughter. Woman indicates individual female, but daughter focuses the
attention on a relationship with a father and mother. So in addressing this
woman as Daughter, he is putting all her woman qualities and her woman
functions back into the motherhood of God, which is where they come from, and
then she is healed.
There was a young woman we knew who had
been brought up in a home where her brother got all the love and all her
parents' attention. It seemed to her as if they virtually ignored her and she
grew up somewhat anti-man in her emotional make-up. She was indeed married, but
the marriage was not consummated, because with her frozen emotional attitude
they could not come together. She had been to a doctor and to psychiatrists and
they were not helping her much. So she came to us because she had heard about
Christian Science healing. We talked with her a bit about loving her own divine
worth because she is the daughter of the Father-Mother God. Therefore she can
have a wonderful relaxed sense of self-respect and self-worth. She accepted
this and became a changed person in many ways. For instance, her hair, which
had completely covered her face ---and made her look rather like a sheepdog
---was now brushed back, and she came forth instead of being hidden. The next
thing we heard was that she had conceived and now she and her husband have two
lovely little girls and she is a totally different person, because she learned
to love her divine worth.
We had another happy instance not long
ago of a woman in another country who is about one hundred years old. She was
in great pain with shingles (inflamed nerve ends) all around her middle. A
friend who speaks English telephoned on her behalf and asked for help. As this
man was talking about her, I got such a sense of how she was embraced in Love,
encircled in divine Love. Every one of us is precious to God and God's love
wraps us around. As I thought that, I had not realized that the derivation of
the word shingle is from a girdle or belt. It means to be encircled. What I had
been seeing about divine Love encircling her was absolutely the healing truth,
precisely the truth that was needed. In a day or two she was healed of the
shingles and at the same time a broken wrist that had been troubling her and
was very painful was also healed. But nobody had mentioned the wrist. Both
troubles were taken care of by this embrace of divine Love. In her nice broken
English she asked her friend when he next telephoned to say to me, 'Please tell
that man that I am feeling weller than I've ever felt in my life.' At one
hundred! There is hope for us all!
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1989
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