Testimonies of Healing

Recently I Was intrigued by the following passage from Science and Health: "God never punishes man for doing right, for honest labor, or for deeds of kindness, though they expose him to fatigue, cold, heat, contagion. If man seems to incur the penalty through matter, this is but a belief of mortal mind, not an enactment of wisdom, and man has only to enter his protest against this belief in order to annul it" ( p.

For Some Time I had felt pain in my feet. It hadn't hindered my activity, though, and I had even been able to go cross-country skiing.

Many years ago I found myself extremely depressed. I felt exhausted, yet I was unable to sleep or eat much, and I cried constantly.

Translated from Portuguese About two years ago, my right eye became very painful, inflamed, and swollen. I was First Reader in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, and I continued at my post.

I wish to share a healing that has transformed my thinking to a degree I would never have expected. Several years ago I made a commitment to center my life on the study of Christian Science.

Shortly after President Roosevelt'S declaration of war on December 7, 1941, I enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps. My mother and her mother were Christian Scientists, and I attended Christian Science Sunday School for a number of years.

Before I discovered Christian Science, I was a medical nurse. I dutifully took my children to the doctor for their checkups, but rarely gave them medicine.

The author lost her fear of the symptoms of disease while pondering this passage from John's Gospel: "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly" (John 10:10).

My husband and I had been married many years, but we had had no children. While I took great joy in spending time with my nieces, the goal of having children of our own seemed unreachable.

In the fall of 1998, I was operating a large front-end loader. The engine had just been overhauled and seemed to be working fine.