Testimonies of Healing

Considering that I have been a Christian Scientist all of my life, this testimony is perhaps overdue. When I was experiencing excruciating pains in my stomach and chest, over a period of some weeks, I prayed sporadically about the situation.

What I witnessed as Virginia was working out her healing was sometimes most frightening to me. I am not a lifelong Christian Scientist, although I have been one for many years, and have seen many healings through prayer.

My family had just met up in Belgium, and we were driving down a highway in the midafternoon, planning to stop early. I had been on a night flight, and told my wife I needed to sleep a few minutes while she drove.

Christian Science came to me when a workmate introduced me to it. I had been going to hospital for daily electric shock treatment to keep finger movement happening.

A beloved psalm says: "How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! .

My interest in Christian Science was at first on an intellectual basis. I expected to find some answers to questions from my Biblical studies, as well as explanations of Bible stories in general.

During a three-week period in January 1994 I had a number of physical problems in which I was sorely tested to put into practice everything I had learned about God, His allness, His goodness, and loving care for His children. I considered all I knew of the omnipotence of God, knowing I had to deny evil vehemently, which is opposed to God's goodness.

After the loss of five relatives in the space of six years, I was sorely in need of rocklike spiritual truths to help me. I cried a great deal, and it was very difficult to surmount the great sorrow I felt, particularly after the loss of a son.

I grew up learning that God is always at hand. In childhood, my health needs were met by the prayers of my parents, occasionally with the help of a Christian Science practitioner.

At first the only thing I knew about Christian Science was that it was supposed to heal. Because I was in great pain, I went to an internist whom I knew well.