Testimonies of Healing

I HAD JUST been learning about the need to be consistent and persistent in holding to divine Truth, when an opportunity to demonstrate the beneficial effect of doing so came along. I gradually became aware of a pain in my breast.

MORE THAN A DECADE AGO, I accepted the belief that I needed eyeglasses. When I began serving my branch Church of Christ, Scientist, as First Reader, I had to use my glasses to read.

I'D LIKE TO SHARE A FEW of the many wonderful healings I have had through relying on Christian Science over the last twenty-five years. Right after I began reading Science and Health, my attention was drawn to several warts growing on the back of my hand.

THE FOLLOWING healing marked an important step in my spiritual growth and understanding. As a child I attended a Christian Science Sunday School, where God's love for all His children was taught each Sunday; and I have always felt that through prayer, God does answer our every need.

A WHILE AGO, I began to experience a dull ache in my lower back and light menstrual cramps. This was the obnoxious, yet tolerable pain I had grown so accustomed to as an unavoidable part of my period.

THE FOLLOWING EXPERIENCE was my first healing in Christian Science. As a young teen, I needed to change the direction of my life.

I attended Christian Science Sunday School as a child, then had an intermittent connection with Christian Science for about thirty years, until 1995. At that time I discovered a deep appreciation of the Bible and Science and Health through a system of meditation that found me repeating, among other inspired passages, hymns from the Christian Science Hymnal, "the scientific statement of being" from Science and Health (see p.

On My Way to Work one day I slipped on some black ice and fell very hard on my back. I immediately affirmed that there are no accidents in God's kingdom and that God's child had not been, and never could be, hurt.

It is time for me to put on record my gratitude for Mary Baker Eddy, for Christian Science practitioners, and for the Christian Science periodicals, which bring us the inspired Word that heals. I fell away from the practice of Christian Science during my college years, succumbing to the temptations of drinking and drugs.

One Hot Summer Day in 1970, I came home from work early because I was having chest pains and difficulty breathing. Soon I also lost consciousness, and woke up in a hospital.