Testimonies of Healing

The very first Christian Science healing I had, early in my marriage, is special to me. I found I suddenly could not retain my food, and brought up alarming amounts of liquids, which were so acid they burned.

Last spring, when climbing into the tub to take my morning shower, I caught my foot on the edge of it and fell headfirst into the tub. I managed to get up on my hands and knees and, in this position, I began to pray.

My infrequent dating relationships had usually ended quickly when I developed puppy love crushes. But one situation had taken a different course.

When I went to a dentist in 1985 for a routine tooth cleaning, I was informed that my two front teeth should be extracted. I immediately said, "No!" The dentist then sent me to two other dentists who agreed with his recommendation.

" The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law" ( Gal. 5:22, 23 ).

I feel so blessed to have had the wonderful protection, health, and all the love and joy that come with being a Christian Scientist. I married a wonderful man who, although he was not a Christian Scientist, was willing for our three children to attend Christian Science Sunday School.

I have known Marie Wood for about twenty-five years and can vouch for her honesty in writing her testimony. I did witness, to a degree, her healing.

I have been healed of so many things by studying and practicing the teachings in that remarkable book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by the Leader of the Christian Science movement, Mary Baker Eddy. Having been a student of the Science of Christ now for many years, always relying on God and His law for healing, I put the following experience on record, trusting it may help others.

I got up one night, and when returning to bed I turned my ankle over. I heard a sound, and it felt as though it had broken.

I was brought up in a loving home, attending a Christian Science Sunday School with my two sisters right up until I was twenty years old. I shall always be grateful to the teachers there, who helped us to appreciate and to love the Holy Bible, with its stories of the prophets and the teachings and healings of Jesus and the apostles.