Testimonies of Healing
A few years ago I turned wholeheartedly to the study of Christian Science. After making this commitment to know God better, I started to read the Bible Lesson daily, instead of my previous hit or miss approach.
The wonder of the following healing remains with me to this day. I feel sure that without a basic love of the teachings of Christian Science, the unfailing support of my wife, and the prayers of a Christian Science practitioner at various times, I would not be sharing it now.
I began attending Christian Science services many years ago, while living on our ranch—about fifty miles away from any branch Church of Christ, Scientist. Eventually I found that a group of Christian Scientists were meeting in a small town nearby, so I started attending there.
For twelve years I suffered from chronic menstrual pain so severe that at the beginning of each cycle I became feverish and faint and had to stay in bed. Even worse was the fear that I would have this pain while at school or work, and would be unable to find a place to lie down.
During my freshman year in college I was studying to be a concert pianist. But at the end of the first term, a few days before juries (piano performance finals), I seemed to have all the symptoms of a cold.
I am grateful to have been associated with Christian Science since I was a small child. In fact, I have never really known any other way of life.
Christian Science came into my life at a time of abject unhappiness and confusion. I had married as a teen-ager for many wrong reasons, and the situation was terrible.
My grandfather and two uncles were Protestant ministers. Although I did not join their church, I attended services and entered into the church's activities.
I attended a Christian Science Sunday School from early childhood. After I finished at the age of twenty, my own study at first seemed like a void.
I was raised in Christian Science, and I relied totally on God for healing during my childhood. I attended the Christian Science Sunday School until I was sixteen.