
Testimonies of Healing
When an illness made it difficult to get through the day, this author changed the way she was thinking about her day.
The spring before last, while dancing with my ballroom partner, I fell with all my weight on one hip. Immediately, I turned my thought to God, knowing that because I was truly His perfect spiritual likeness, I was all right and was in His loving care.
After a longtime boss retired, whom I had been very comfortable working with, I was not sure where I stood with my new boss. He seemed to think I should be a guinea pig for the sales group, giving me assignments that greatly challenged me.
One of the first things I remember being taught as a young girl growing up in Christian Science was to know the truth of my being as a child of God, and to turn to this truth whenever there was a need for healing. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science, writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: “Man is harmonious when governed by Soul.
As a child I went to the dentist regularly for routine checkups and cleanings. But after graduating from college and living on my own, I did not go to the dentist for several years.
While struggling with body image, this author asked herself, “How does God see me?”
One morning recently I woke up with a sharp pain in my lower back. I instantly thought that I must have over-extended myself during some task at work.
Almost 20 years ago, while I was helping a friend box up items, a sharp blade slipped and deeply sliced one of my fingers to the bone. Faced with what to do next, I took a “grand pause,” as we say in music.
Some years ago I experienced a spiritual awakening that gave me a clearer sense of the Christ and brought transformation and healing to many areas of my life. During several years leading up to it, our family had been going through a period of intense friction.
Our son was about ten months old when my husband and I moved into our newly built home. The small porch on the back deck had open railings with a cement slab below.