Testimonies of Healing

Late one afternoon I was walking in the neighborhood when my shoe heel caught in the pavement. I tripped and fell quite hard.

Oh, how grateful I am to God! Christian Science illumines the Scriptures. I have seen my Father-Mother's love at work in everyday life with wonderful results.

Two years ago , while visiting friends one evening, I accompanied others to view their deck. As I turned to enter the house, I missed a step, and as I grabbed for the door to steady myself, I heard a crack.

About three years ago I was healed of a physical difficulty that I had struggled with for many years. Some years before, I had been a deputy sheriff in Southern California.

A hymn reminds us , "Our gratitude is riches,/Complaint is poverty" ( Christian Science Hymnal , No. 249 ).

Today I thought of how fearful I used to be of standing up and giving a testimony at a Wednesday evening testimony meeting. I had all kinds of excuses for not giving testimonies, but I would sit and give many silent ones.

Class instruction in Christian Science provided me with more inspiration than I had ever imagined. However, in the middle of the class, I began to suffer from the flu.

Our adventurous African honeymoon trip was going wonderfully, yet I had reacted quite ungraciously to some harmless issue one morning. It left me with an unhappy feeling about my consciousness and actions—a feeling of not being in control of my responses.

While I was visiting my sister, she and a neighbor and I were out for an evening walk. My sister was having some construction work done, and there were pallets and cinder blocks lying about.

Before being acquainted with Christian Science, I was always annoyed with problems: financial problems, relationship problems. But the severest problem I had was HIV.