Testimonies of Healing
In the fall of 2001 I became interested in purchasing an established business from someone who planned to retire. Although I was employed at the time and not specifically looking to make a change, the move looked like a great opportunity.
My husband's company softball team was in the middle of a practice game. Bases were loaded, and they had run out of batters.
I remember the very first Christian Science service I attended, one Sunday morning many years ago. I thought the Readers lived in the church and were not allowed to lead normal lives or ever leave the building.
I always like doing things with my two sons, and sledding is no exception. We enjoy gliding down the hill on our sleds and tubes on a crisp, cold day; flying down the slope alone, or holding hands tightly to form a chain.
Several months after I thought I had completed menopause, I began to experience significant sweating all over my body, along with periods of extreme heat and an inability to focus on my surroundings. These symptoms alarmed me, especially because I didn't know what was going on.
About five years ago, while getting ready to do my shopping, I stepped out of my truck and my hip went out of place. I was startled, and it was very painful.
When I Went away to college, I joined a fraternity that had frequent beer-drinking parties. I started drinking because it seemed to be a part of college fraternity life, even though I'd learned in Christian Science Sunday School that I could be happy without drinking.
I was driving to Los Angeles on Highway 5—a narrow, two-lane strip of freeway—when I saw the front of a long truck edging into my lane. I realized that the truck's tail end was about to sideswipe my car.
In early 2000, while on business trips, I began using my laptop computer to access pornographic websites in secret. I never paid any money, but I knew I was violating the Seventh Commandment by committing adultery in my heart (see Ex.
An article entitled "Never give up," published in the April 2001 issue of the Herald, helped me a great deal when I had an illness for a long time. As I continued to study Christian Science, never giving up and trusting that God would heal me, I was not only healed of the sickness but I also gained a new conviction that I can live each day in Spirit.