Testimonies of Healing

In 1982 I got a job with the Uruguay branch of SOS Children’s Villages, a nongovernmental organization dedicated to the care of orphaned and abandoned children around the world. While working there I had my first healing in Christian Science.

One afternoon, while waiting for my car to be serviced at a local dealership, I decided to go across the street and look around in a furniture store. I was eating pretzels, when suddenly, in the parking lot, I inhaled several small pretzels and my windpipe became blocked.

In 2021, my husband and I built a second-story addition to our house to add a new office for my practice of Christian Science healing. The roofers were adding the last tiles to the roof when one of the workers came running for me, gasping that his coworker had just fallen from the top of the roof and landed on his back on the concrete pavers below.

In the fall of 2022 , I realized I had many healings and experiences practicing Christian Science for which I had never expressed gratitude. I began to write articles for the Christian Science periodicals that included these experiences.

One day I was on my way to have lunch with a friend, and as I sat down on the bus, I noticed that a protrusion on my back was making it uncomfortable to lean against the seat. Even though I was somewhat distracted during lunch, I was still able to reach out in prayer to God, our loving, caring Parent, and felt peaceful enough to enjoy the lunchtime companionship.

“ Every trial of our faith in God makes us stronger. The more difficult seems the material condition to be overcome by Spirit, the stronger should be our faith and the purer our love” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p.

When I was in my twenties, a longtime church member asked when I was going to take Christian Science Primary class instruction. I replied that I hadn’t thought of it.

“Trials are proofs of God’s care. ” That statement by Mary Baker Eddy in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures on page 66 was often a source of confusion for me.

For many years I suffered from acute respiratory crises. At times, I would call the emergency services for help.

I had just completed Primary class instruction in Christian Science, a two-week course that helped me develop a deeper understanding of the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy and learn how to heal through prayer. Seeing more clearly that God is Truth and the source of true thought really challenged me to think differently.