Testimonies of Healing

A COUPLE OF WINTERS ago, my brother, Mark, and I went out to Colorado to snowboard in the beautiful Rocky Mountains. On the first day there, we joined some friends in trying to do tricks over a little snow jump.

FOR TWENTY YEARS, my husband and I contentedly raised our family of three children on a ten-acre farm. Activity and warmth abounded within our extended home circle, which also included my parents who lived in a nearby town.

A FEW YEARS AGO I was living in Jamaica, teaching children about computers and the environment in the rural mountains. I'd been living there for a year and a half already, but I was still trying to be at peace with the people and culture of my community.

WHEN I WAS In my twenties I fell at work one day and began to feel lower back pain. I went to a doctor, and X-rays indicated that I had a serious congenital spinal disorder that the doctor said was incurable.

OVER EIGHT YEARS AGO, an eruptive and inflammatory skin condition developed on my leg. Itchy and unsightly, it made me feel unattractive and it slowed down my active lifestyle.

YEARS AGO, my wife and I returned to California after working overseas. Both of us wanted to continue teaching in public schools, but there was a severe shortage of jobs.

ONE AFTERNOON a few years ago, I fell headlong down a flight of concrete stairs, hitting my head very hard against the cement balustrade. I literally saw stars.

ONE MORNING IN FEBRUARY 2006, while my husband and I were visiting my youngest daughter, I found I was unable to move my legs. Later in the day I lost the use of my hands, and my speech also became slurred.

FOR MANY YEARS, Christian Science has benefited me spiritually, as well as emotionally and physically. Among the many physical healings I've experienced since learning of Christian Science as an adult, are a medically diagnosed liver condition, epilepsy, an abscessed tooth, a leg infection, and a smoking habit.

AROUND 1915, my mother and father read a Christian Science lecture in a local newspaper. Shortly after reading it, my mother, who had been scheduled to have a hysterectomy, no longer needed the surgery.