Testimonies of Healing
One Friday during an especially cold winter over fifty years ago, a kind neighbor, who was a master plumber, came to me and said that most of the houses in our village had no water. He told me that he had been trying to thaw frozen waterlines for days using a blowtorch but had had no success, since the lines were frozen in the ground.
Time has not dimmed the gratitude I feel for a healing that took place many years ago. It was obvious to my parents when I was a very small child that I had a goiter—an inherited condition with which my mother also suffered.
It is with much gratitude that I submit this testimony of healing. Eleven years ago, business took me to Boston, where I met a young man who had been raised in Christian Science.
How greatly church membership has blessed me! I have been a member of The Mother Church for over forty years, and have served for a number of years in almost every capacity in my branch church. Following Christian Science class instruction, I went on to become a Christian Science graduate nurse.
Daily proofs of the power of God make me so grateful for the teachings of Christian Science. A few years ago while vacationing in Hawaii, I was out with my children in the ocean, on a foam surfboard, when a very large wave developed.
Although I had heard of Christian Science when I was a child living in Connecticut, I had learned little or nothing about it. My real introduction to this teaching came through my wife.
As a lifelong student of Christian Science, I have experienced many proofs of its healing power. My parents relied totally on God in raising me and my sisters, and I attended a Christian Science Sunday School through my senior year in high school.
For years I have read, appreciated, and been uplifted by the testimonies published in the periodicals. It is time for me to share some of the healings I have had through Christian Science.
How grateful I am for Christian Science, and for the growth in a spiritual understanding of God that it has brought me. It was through this understanding that I obtained one of the most important healings I have had since coming into Christian Science.
I had never heard of Christian Science before meeting my husband-to-be. I had been raised in another religion, so Christian Science was like another language to me.