Testimonies of Healing
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.
I ATTENDED A CHRISTIAN Science Sunday School as a young child until my family relocated to another city. I started smoking at the age of fourteen and smoked up to two packs a day.
MY NEW WIFE of eight months and I boarded a plane in Sydney, Australia, for a flight to San Francisco, California. We were on our way to Reno, Nevada, to introduce my wife to my daughter, who was living there.
My Written Expression of gratitude for a healing that took place approximately ten years ago is long overdue. Although I had experienced some remarkable healings over the past 40 years of turning to God as my only physician, I had not encountered a debilitating and life-threatening illness of this magnitude prior to this time.
A Year and a Half Ago I began to notice numbness in a few of my fingers. It would last a short time after I got up from bed, but then worsened to the point that my other fingers were affected.
I Love That We Can heal by applying the same principles Jesus taught a few thousand years ago. Five years ago, when I was seventeen, I had an opportunity to demonstrate this.