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October - December, 2008

Miracle Mind Power

by Rev. Therese Anne Ward

I don’t know what happened, how it happened or why it happened, only that it did happen to me in November of 2007. Thanksgiving was coming up and I was thinking about preparations for our family celebration of giving thanks to God for all the good in our lives. The brilliant orange, red and yellow colors of autumn standing out against the deep burgundy and browns of the waning foliage, always calls me to introspection, praise and thanksgiving.

After my shower on this particular morning, I noticed a little red spot, about the size of a pinhead, right under my right eye orbit. At my age, new spots appear quite often, so I paid it no attention except to notice that it was getting wider and raising up day after day. Understand now that I am one who prefers to use medical doctors as a last resort. By the third week when I would look down, it was interfering with my sight, so I went to see an eye physician and surgeon. He had helped me two years earlier when I accidentally got badly poked in the eye with a tree branch. That time I was reassured that all would be well if I just kept the eye cleaned and rinsed every day, and it healed, just as he said it would.

This time after checking this growth, his diagnosis was 99.9% sure it was Basal Cell Carcinoma, (cancer) and he declared, ”It has to come off.” He explained that he would have his nurse make the appointment with a plastic surgeon for the reconstruction work that would be needed after the removal. I was shocked by the seriousness of my condition that he was laying out for me; my mind was conflicted, trying to “practice” accepting what is, and the other side of me, wanting to run in panic. It seems that you have to wait quite a while if you have not seen a particular doctor before, so my appointment with the plastic surgeon was scheduled for December 11. That wasn’t soon enough for me.

Well, where my mind went the rest of the day was to my mother and sister who both died from cancer and trying to accept, whatever is to be will be, even dying of cancer. I thought about what a full life I’ve had with family and friends; not always easy but always rewarding and satisfying. I was feeling truly, truly grateful to God for my life lived. My husband was very supportive; however, my deep comfort came from quietness with the Holy Spirit. I prayed my “proven” mantra, “ Holy Spirit, I lay this on your altar; translate it to Truth for me.”

Going to bed, I prayed it again. Then I noticed that I found myself taking saliva from my mouth onto my finger and rubbing it gently over the growth. That reminded me of how Jesus had taken spittle and dirt and put it on a blind man’s eyes and his sight was restored. So I continued with the saliva and prayed, “Dissolve and reabsorb and restore; make as should be at birth. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.”

I went to sleep. Woke up during the night a few times and did and prayed the same prayer, plus a line from the Unity prayer of faith, “All things I am, can do, and be, through Christ the Truth that is in me.” and “Not I, but the Father within doeth the work.” Now, under my fingers it was granulating into pieces like sugar. It was definitely getting smaller, dissolving away like sugar granules dissolve! When I took my morning shower, the growth was completely gone! All that was left on my skin was a tiny red flat spot the size of a speck of pepper. Thank you Holy Spirit, thank you Holy Spirit is all I felt and could say.

I knew that I had to immediately cancel the appointment with the plastic surgeon. Also call my eye doctor and tell him that it was gone, just gone, and go show myself to him! Well the office had closed early because the next day was Thanksgiving Day. It would reopen the following Monday. So I left my “Miracle Message” and offered to come in to show him. Of course I told my whole family my story and showed them my eye; those who had seen the former growth were amazed and speechless. The other kids eyes widened in wonder. What a “Miracle Minded” Thanksgiving celebration we all had!

Monday, the doctor’s nurse called and said, yes, he would like to see me and he wouldn’t charge me for this visit. By this time, even the red dot was gone; just clear clean skin. I went right down there and he put me under a strong light and he looked me over real good without saying a word. I of course was telling my story, that “all I did was spit on it and pray to the Holy Spirit, etc.” The doctor did speak after he had finished his examining and said, “Well I certainly am glad that I was wrong.” Then he repeated it again, “I certainly am glad that I was wrong.” I smiled and thanked him. He turned and left the room and I went home, pondering. “I was wrong” was his explanation; mine was that I was given an experience of the Miracle Mind Power of the Holy Spirit at work.

Rev. Therese Ann Ward, O.M.C., is a Pathways of Light minister living in Newport, Kentucky

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