Testimonies of Healing

FIVE YEARS AGO I notified my employer of my intent to retire after a 30–year career. Not long after I took this step, I began to experience the physical symptoms of what I feared to be prostate cancer.

SEVERAL YEARS AGO when I was in the Peace Corps, a fellow volunteer and I both had wildlife clubs at our respective community high schools where we taught in northern Malawi. We'd taken our clubs to a national park for a week's educational trip, along with two Malawian teachers, 35 village high school students, and ten other Peace Corps volunteers.

SOME YEARS AGO when working as a graphic designer, I found myself hurrying to prepare a presentation in time for a meeting that afternoon. I was making a prototype of a design product using a sharp and precise knife, when the knife blade slipped, slicing deep into my left index finger.

WHILE BRUSHING one of my cats last spring, I noticed a lump on her side. I prayed about the growth by affirming that Dina's life is in Spirit, God, and that she is a spiritual idea, constituted of spiritual qualities.

LAST SPRING, I taught English classes in Puerto Quijarro, a small, tropical town on the border of Bolivia and Brazil. One evening after teaching my high school classes, I came back to my dorm room feeling exhausted.

ONE OF THE THINGS I love about Christian Science is that I'm constantly learning something new. Life is a "work in progress" as I discover gems of truth in the Bible, which before I hadn't seen.

WHILE OUT ONE NIGHT IN a quiet, rather dark area when visiting another city, a friend and I were accosted by two men with knives who demanded our money. I ran away, but my companion called after me to return, saying the men were threatening to harm him if I didn't.

THE BIBLE TELLS us, "Let the redeemed of the Lord say so" ( Ps. 107:2 ).

ONE WEEKEND this past summer, I was busy cooking and cleaning, getting my house ready for company. On the morning prior to my guests' arrival, I woke up with a bad headache and stiff back.

ONE BEAUTIFUL Sunday morning, I sat in a Christian Science church in Colorado looking out at snowcapped mountains and listening to a soloist as she sang: "Be not afraid, for I have redeemed you. Be not afraid, I have called you by name.