Lump in Breast Healed

Several years ago, I woke to some pain in my breast. I didn’t think too much of it as I continued on with my morning study of the Weekly Bible Lesson from the Christian Science Quarterly and prayers for myself.

When I got into the shower I noticed an inflamed lump and began to be more concerned. While I was in the shower I decided that I would call a Christian Science Practitioner as soon as I got out. So, in my bathrobe, I called and made it clear that I was expecting to be completely healed of this situation promptly. The practitioner agreed to work for me and we set a time that I would call her back and share with her all of the inspiration that I had received throughout the course of my day.

As I was dressing the idea came to me that if this was happening to my sister, who I adore, I would be able to pray more effectively. Quickly, I was able to rebuke that false notion with an excerpt from the Manual of the Mother Church: “Neither animosity nor mere personal attachment should impel the motives or acts of the members of The Mother Church.” (p. 40:5). From this I was able to realize that the notion of breast cancer attacks the spiritual idea of woman, and not me in particular.

I must admit that I was struggling with a good deal of fear. Since women’s health issues are dramatized in the media, I was frequented by images of unpleasant outcomes. So I clung to a verse from the New Testament that had delivered me from an unhealthy relationship as a teenager: “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear…” (I John 4:18). Because I had experienced healing using this idea, I knew that it must be true and therefore I could rely on it again.

At one point during my day I found myself at an intersection, literally and figuratively. As I waited for the signal to change, I remember saying out loud, “God, I don’t know where this is going, but no matter what I am not letting go of Love.” With that I was healed of the fear that I could be separated from God regardless of the twists and turns my physical body could try to present.

Throughout the course of the day I had been experiencing some pain in my breast. As I was driving over to a friend’s house, I was working with the scientific statement of being from the Christian Science Textbook, Science and Health: “There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter.” (p. 468:9). I knew that a lump, which was definitely matter, could not give me any information or sensation. But I was still struggling with the discomfort. Once again, as I was waiting at a traffic light, the analogy came to me that if I made an error in math, I would discover the miscalculation, erase it and continue solving the problem. I was so overjoyed with this that I completely forgot about the pain. It wasn’t until I had been at my friend’s house for about an hour that I realized that I was free of the discomfort.

Once I got home, I began to listen to God for inspiration. (I did have an assignment from the practitioner and I wasn’t counting all of the other angel messages that I had received up to that point as meeting the criteria she had set forth.) What did come to me was the word, lodge. So I went to my concordance and found this passage from Science and Health, “Evil thoughts, lusts, and malicious purposes cannot go forth, like wandering pollen, from one human mind to another, finding unsuspected lodgment, if virtue and truth build a strong defence.” (p. 234: 32). Prior to this experience, I had been struggling with the affections of a colleague, who knew that I was married, but did not seem able to deny his attraction to me. This passage from Science and Health reinforced my prayers regarding the healing of that situation as well as protecting me from providing lodgment for anything that was not from God, such as a lump.

Again, I was overjoyed as I spoke with the practitioner and shared all of the angel messages that had guided me throughout the day.

The next morning, I was struggling with the temptation to check if the lump was still there. Immediately the second commandment came to me, “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:” (Ex. 20:4). I knew that the lump was graven, casted, or crafted and therefore I could not be tempted to acknowledge it. I think of the Ten Commandments not as rules that are not to be broken, but also as promises that God protects us from being tempted to do any of the behaviors outlined. So I was healed of the urge to check if there had been any change.

As I continued with my morning study I found in the lesson the passage from the 91st Psalm:

  1. He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
  2. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
  3. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
  4. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
  5. Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
  6. Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
  7. Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;
  8. There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
  9. For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
  10. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

I found the “shadow of the Almighty,” and “under His wings shalt thou trust” to be my true lodgment. I reasoned that since I live under the shadow of the almighty wings, then it was impossible for even a speck of matter to approach the almighty wings, let alone reach me or attempt to attack me. I also considered verse twelve in which we are assured that God’s angels will protect us so that we don’t come into contact with matter, in this case a stone, or lump. It became obvious to me that there was no lump and I went on with my day rejoicing in God’s love for me.

It wasn’t until a day or two later that I noticed that there was no sign of the lump whatsoever. I am so grateful to Christian Science for this healing and to Mrs. Eddy who led me to rely on all of the inspired words of the Bible, wrote Science and Health, and recognized humanity’s need for practitioners of this healing method.

- Leanne Nemeth, Aug 2008
  Redondo Beach, CA