Testimonies of Healing

This author was healed when they realized that they weren’t helpless—that God’s boundless love was protecting and caring for them.

Every year around the holidays I look forward to visiting my stepchildren and grandchildren in another state. It’s always a time filled with lots of activity and joy.

I was raised in a faith that did not encourage us to read the Bible, so I had never read it. When I was seventeen, I went to work in the home of a family of Christian Scientists, and after a while I started to read the weekly Christian Science Bible Lessons that I easily found around the house; they are composed of selections from both the Bible and the textbook of Christian Science, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

Last spring, while training for my upcoming sports season, I strained my groin. According to medical/sports therapy estimates, the typical length of time it takes for an injury like this to heal is four to six weeks.

When I took Primary class instruction in Christian Science, I recall learning that true vision is spiritual discernment, and I’ve made great progress in understanding and demonstrating this truth.   For about 35 years I have worn glasses.

Autumn in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California is a season of preparation—of getting ready for the upcoming blanketing snows and storing up supplies to get through the cold months with their shorter days of sunlight. One day, after working all day cutting, splitting, and moving large timber for firewood, a 50-pound chunk of wood I was moving out of a trailer fell about five feet directly onto the little finger of my left hand.

A healing experience I recently had brought to mind an especially interesting passage in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. It reads, “Until the advancing age admits the efficacy and supremacy of Mind, it is better for Christian Scientists to leave surgery and the adjustment of broken bones and dislocations to the fingers of a surgeon, while the mental healer confines himself chiefly to mental reconstruction and to the prevention of inflammation” ( p.

Our toddler son and I were at a party with friends from our church. The kids were playing on various rented inflatable play structures, bouncing and sliding and giggling.

Several years ago, I began experiencing signs of heart trouble. Since I’d grown up with Christian Science and had continued studying it as an adult, I was familiar with the idea that God is Life and that man is the spiritual expression of Life.

I am deeply grateful for how Christian Science healed me of a sudden throat problem a few months ago. As I arrived at my branch Church of Christ, Scientist, on a Wednesday night to serve as First Reader, there was a strange burning sensation in my throat.