Testimonies of Healing

When one is faced with an accident, it must be handled in thought. Otherwise, each part of it is mentally repeated, and it seems more real and difficult to overcome.

One afternoon I lay on my bed for a much-needed nap. I drifted off easily and dreamed that I was walking down a forest path and suddenly twisted my ankle.

I often remind myself that God never places anyone in a hopeless situation, and that we are never without His loving help. I experienced clear proof of this when I was at a family reunion last year.

When our oldest daughter was sixteen, our family took a weekend ski trip to our local mountains. None of us had ever skied before.

One afternoon about ten years ago, while teaching in my classroom, I began to feel disoriented and lightheaded. A fellow teacher walking by asked if I was OK.

“Truth is God’s remedy for error of every kind, and Truth destroys only what is untrue,” Mary Baker Eddy states in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures ( pp. 142–143 ).

About ten years ago, I fell and injured my right wrist while I was ice skating with my family. I immediately began to pray for myself, and my wife also prayed for me.

The author shared Christian Science with the gentleman who crashed into her car, and together they prayed for healing.

I’ve had many healings since beginning my study of Christian Science at age thirteen, when I set out on the journey to understand God as an active and powerful presence that is as close as my thought. I’d like to share a few of these healings here.

Eighteen years into my career as an early childhood educator, I found myself without a job. One day, I was the director of a school of two hundred children, and the next thing I knew, I was a tutor at minimum wage.