Testimonies of Healing

Two years ago, I found my department was completely eliminated, even though we had been performing a unique function for twelve years that made us, we thought, indispensable. I was told that I was to be part of a reduction in force, in six weeks.

My testimony of gratitude for Christian Science is long overdue. In raising a family of three, we witnessed many healings.

I kept a list of all the healings I had last year. I was healed of an irritated bump on my cheek, a prolonged constant pain in my arm, a migraine headache, menstrual cramps, a canker sore, influenza, laryngitis, and a spreading, itching rash.

In the course of my work, I was driving down a cut line in the bush when a sapling tree caught the side mirror of the truck and came through the open window, striking me on the side of the neck and forcing me to the opposite side of the cab. I was able to free myself and continued to work that day, but as I worked my neck became very stiff and a painful headache developed.

  From infancy I had problems with my health. I was nervous, depressed, and fearful of all kinds of ailments.

A few years ago, when our first three children were still small, I learned I was expecting twins. This was the beginning of a wonderful time of spiritual growth and healing.

I am deeply grateful to God for a healing I experienced quite recently. The physical relief was secondary to learning that when we're faced with a situation that suggests it has us backed into a corner, we can prove by means of our God-given humility and trust in Him that there are no "corners" in divine Love's infinite circle of good.

I became a devoted student of Christian Science after my marriage to a Christian Scientist, and my life has been greatly enriched and blessed as a result. In one instance, our son leapt into the air to catch a fly ball during a baseball game and crashed headlong into a wooden fence.

Four of us—all Christian Scientists—went for a mountain walking holiday. I am sure that all of us had been praying, as I was, for its overall success, and knew that we were in God's care.

About two years ago I registered for a symposium on spirituality and health care, an event intended for health-care administrators, hospital chaplains, social workers, and others in the health-care community, but open to anyone interested in the issues. I wanted to be better informed, to see how these issues were now perceived and pursued in our culture, and to think about them in the light of my own study of Christian Science.