Testimonies of Healing

As a child I loved attending the Christian Science Sunday School. I remember many times I rode home pondering a new spiritual insight that had enlightened my thought.

Teeming with ideas. How delightful! This concept of pregnant helped me see that instead of being a time-consuming, burdensome biological process, pregnancy expresses joyous spiritual development, demonstrating God as the only creator.

I was raised as a Christian Scientist, and saw some wonderful proofs of its reliability in dealing with all types of problems. For example, during a polio epidemic, my little sister, after playing with a child who came down with a diagnosed case of polio, became very ill with the same symptoms.

There was a period in my experience when I was chronically upset and ill. I had three teenage daughters whose behavior was causing me much distress.

Let me tell you what it is like to grow up in a family of practicing Christian Scientists who are devoted to recognizing God as omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent Life, Love, Mind, and to demonstrating daily that this recognition heals. I can't give you names of diseases of which I was healed, but I remember being completely protected as a child after falling out of moving cars twice; after accidentally setting my mask on fire at Halloween; and after landing hard on my seat while roller-skating.

I wish to express my great gratitude for the Concordances to Mrs. Eddy's writings.

Some years ago my husband's aunt, a Christian Scientist, came to visit. Sunday morning she went to her own church.

One time I was playing with my friends and a toy got stuck in a tree. We were trying to get it down and we got it down, but a bee fell in my shirt and stung me.

I'm Benjamin's mom. I remember that day very well.

One day the television news was full of details about the prevalence of breathing difficulties like asthma. This reminded me of my own early experience.