Testimonies of Healing

I will always be grateful to the friend who many years ago told me of Christian Science. I was having one of my repeated attacks of hay fever, and my friend said to me, "You don't have to put up with this.

Eleven years have passed since my published testimony about our daughter's healing of a weakened spine and facial deformity, which took place shortly after we adopted her. She has continued in good health, and she expresses joy and a love of Christian Science.

At one time I was suffering from a severe and persistent illness diagnosed as undulant fever by our family physician. I also had an ulcer, colitis, and lifelong anemia, for which I was being treated medically.

I am deeply grateful to have grown up in a family that faithfully practiced Christian Science. In thinking about it now, I wouldn't want to have grown up in any other way.

During the first twelve years of my life I had one physical difficulty after another. Frequently sick, I had diseases commonly associated with children and had taken all kinds of medicine.

Having heard some of the attempts to discredit prayer in the case of young children, I would like to submit some personal experiences of effective reliance on prayer for the care of children. One morning, after a severe windstorm shattered a glass door, my young son cut his finger on the broken panels.

In the summer of 1987 a lot of renovation work was being done at my place of work, and whole departments were being moved about inside the building. All the employees had to put up with a lot of construction noise, dust, and extra work.

I was talking with a friend recently about the many obstacles that would keep us from writing for the Christian Science periodicals and sharing the healing experiences we have had through prayer. After this conversation I immediately began to write the following testimony, knowing it is through healings that we see Truth demonstrated! There are several healing experiences that were turning points for me as a student of Christian Science.

I was raised in a Christian Scientist family, but Christian Science first became my own choice of the way I wanted to live when I was a teenager. Later, as an adult with a family of my own, I relied on Christian Science exclusively for healing for myself and our two daughters.

Some years ago when my wife and I were expecting our first child, my wife was, according to medical opinion, in a higher-risk group because of her age. But as we prayed before the birth, we never doubted that God was, is, and always will be the only Father-Mother, the one creator.