Testimonies of Healing

I was traveling with my backpack and tent in another country, doing some scientific research, when I experienced what I believed was a hernial condition in my leg. It grew worse rapidly until it was nearly impossible to walk even short distances without severe pain.

While reading the Bible one day, this verse from Psalms caught my attention: "At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments. " I wondered why the Psalmist preferred midnight for thanksgiving.

I first began to attend services in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, with my husband. He was attracted to the spiritual qualities of compassion and intelligence that he felt were expressed by the members there.

On one Christmas Eve many years ago, while visiting relatives in another state, I heard a discussion about a baby that was dying. The previous year its baby brother, displaying the same symptoms, had died after ten days, cause unknown.

Over the past five decades I have given many many testimonies of healing during Wednesday testimony meetings in branch Churches of Christ, Scientist. Yet this is the first testimony I have written for our periodicals.

Christian Science heals. At the age of fifteen I became ill with tuberculosis.

Words cannot describe how it felt to be depressed every waking hour. I suffered anxiety, inferiority, loneliness, and guilt; also, I was a compulsive pleaser, cried a lot, and wallowed in self-pity.

After a spring break from college, a group of us were returning to the campus by automobile late one night. At the summit of a hill, an intoxicated driver who was on the wrong side of the highway driving about eighty miles an hour crashed into our vehicle.

This testimony is an outcome of my increasing gratitude in raising our two children. When I was a young mother, my mental and physical difficulties led me to the study of this Science.

During a visit to the dentist to have my teeth cleaned, X-rays revealed trouble. An eyetooth was so decayed, I was told, that a root-canal procedure would be necessary.