Testimonies of Healing

This author experienced a painful dog bite. When she turned to God in prayer, recognizing His active and loving presence reflected in all of God’s creatures, all traces of the bite were quickly gone.

Four years ago , I was alone in a hotel in Cuzco, a city in the Peruvian Andes in South America. Over the next few days, some friends and I were going to meet and visit some Incan ruins.

Shortly before I learned about Christian Science, I had been diagnosed with a condition called periodontal disease, and the dentist told me oral surgery was required to treat it. But after reading Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, I was certain that “all things are possible to God,” as the first sentence of the opening chapter of the book states: “The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God,—a spiritual understanding of Him, an unselfed love” ( p.

About a year ago I was cleaning my pool, and while winding up the pool cover I slipped on the wet deck and fell. I slid into the rose bushes beside the pool, which prevented me from going into the gully behind them.

In the spring of 2021 , I was on a run in my new neighborhood when I tripped and fell. Several people stopped to check on me, and I assured them I was fine.

In my senior year of college, my husband and I went to the Florida Keys for Labor Day weekend and decided to go scuba diving, just renting tanks and a boat and heading out on our own. It was a beautiful day with a blue sky and puffy clouds, but there was a good bit of wind and six-foot waves.

In April 2021 when restrictions had been lifted but there was much in the news about a second wave of Covid-19, my father became ill with the coronavirus. He was admitted to the hospital, and all our family members in our home, including my wife and me, were to be tested per government guidelines.

I have long wanted to tell of a healing that I had many years ago.   In the late 1960s while living in Houston, I began having a problem with my nose.

Some years ago , a condition that looked like a burn appeared on the top of one of my hands. I put a bandage on the area to keep it clean and to spare others from concern about it.

Some time ago a growth appeared on my neck. As it became more visible, I called a Christian Science practitioner to pray for me.