Testimonies of Healing

Early in my career, I worked in a small factory in a midsize town. During the middle of winter, many people in the factory began excitedly talking about flu season, and, predictably, that illness seemed to aggressively manifest itself.

A couple of times a week I go curling; it’s a sport where a forty-pound stone is pushed down the ice toward a target. One day about a year ago, I was standing on the ice waiting for my turn when my feet suddenly came out from under me, and my fall was broken when my head hit the ice.

After taking up the study of Christian Science in my early twenties, I learned it is vitally important to pray daily for myself and my family. I do this early in the morning, and I listen for God’s guidance while I’m taking a walk or driving.

I had grown up as a student of Christian Science, but had drifted away and stopped practicing it for about forty years. Then I had a mammogram that indicated a small lump.

In the spring of 2018, as I was leaving my house carrying large bags in either hand, I tripped on a ridge by the curb and fell. My forehead hit the pavement, as I wasn’t able to stop the fall with my hands.

My expression of gratitude for Christian Science is long overdue. When I was a child, my young sister’s quick healing of polio was the beginning of my mother’s serious interest in Christian Science.

The Bible abounds with accounts of the triumph of Spirit over matter—accounts so wonderful that they may seem unbelievable. Indeed, how can we fully grasp the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who were thrown into a fiery furnace without being consumed by the fire? And what’s to be said of Daniel, who was thrown into a den of lions and pulled out the next day without a single scratch? Christian Science explains that occurrences like these, which contradict the apparent laws of matter, are not miracles that belong to a bygone era, but demonstrations of the higher law of Spirit, God, which is always in operation.

Several months ago, on a Friday or a Saturday, I began experiencing debilitating pain and immobility in one arm. The discomfort kept me awake at night.

One evening in May 2019, I moved my leg in such a way that the very sharp pain I felt suggested that I had either torn or pulled a muscle.   Rather than dwell on the accident, I thought back to the readings I had just heard from a Church of Christ, Scientist, testimony meeting, which included the following citation: “To begin rightly is to end rightly.

Several years ago, a condition developed in one of my hips that made walking difficult and limited my ability to do simple things like tie my shoes. I couldn’t comfortably lie in bed on either hip because of intense pain.