Testimonies of Healing

By understanding that only divine Love is in control, the author stops being impressed by fearful thoughts and silences the suggestion that there could be long-term damage.

I have always loved to sing. I’m not a soloist, but I love singing in groups and at church.

About 15 years ago, a small plantar wart appeared on the heel of my left foot. The wart continued to grow, and new warts began to appear on my heel over the next few years.

When this author was experiencing menstrual pain, she turned to God in prayer and began to understand more fully that God didn’t create anything to make women suffer.

At four o’clock one morning, I was alone in the dark waiting for a taxi to take me to the airport. Before the taxi arrived, I tripped and fell on a step in the patio.

In her essay on contagion, Mary Baker Eddy says that we would all become healthier if we would increase our “faith in the power of God to heal and to save mankind” ( Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896, p. 229 ).

I had spent many years thinking about taking Primary class instruction from an authorized teacher of Christian Science. At last everything was in place: I had applied and been accepted to a class and had bought my travel ticket.

One evening as I climbed into bed, I felt a sharp pain in my thigh. As I tried to go to sleep, the pain became a constant throb of increasing intensity.

This author experienced symptoms associated with aging and was healed at church when she felt divine Love’s, God’s, presence and power.

Contagion is a belief that matter and mortal beliefs can move from one person to another. But Christian Science illumines the fact that God, good, is the source of all true movement and makes any other claim void.